--- title: The two hunters see they no longer match their background, and at la… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: The two hunters see they no longer match their background, and at last the Leopard understands Baviaan's riddle: not other spots in South Africa, but spots on his skin. Who acts: two hunters, Giraffe, Leopard, Baviaan. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two hunters, Giraffe, Leopard, Baviaan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:2 # text = The two hunters see they no longer match their background, and at last the Leopard understands Baviaan's riddle: not other spots in South Africa, but spots on his skin. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 no no ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 8 match match VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 background background NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 14 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Leopard leopard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 understands understand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 Baviaan Baviaan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 riddle riddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | the two hunters | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **match** | present | Giraffe | Giraffe's background | | | | long *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent background=Patient | | 3 | **understand** | present | the Leopard | last | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer riddle=Stimulus | | 4 | **riddle** | | Baviaan | | | | | | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. 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