--- title: The Leopard grumbled, "This daylight hunting is a perfect scandal",… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: The Leopard grumbled, "This daylight hunting is a perfect scandal", so they "waited till dark", and the Leopard jumped at something that "smelt like Zebra, and it felt like Zebra, and when he knocked it down it kicked like Zebra, but he couldn't see it". 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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 (Leopard, daylight hunting, hunting, Zebra), 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:5 # text = The Leopard grumbled, "This daylight hunting is a perfect scandal", so they "waited till dark", and the Leopard jumped at something that "smelt like Zebra, and it felt like Zebra, and when he knocked it down it kicked like Zebra, but he couldn't see it". # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Leopard leopard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 grumbled grumble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 6 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 7 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 scandal scandal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 till till ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Leopard leopard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 obl _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 smelt smelt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Zebra Zebra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 38 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Zebra Zebra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 40 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 42 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 advcl _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 down down ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 kicked kick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 49 like like ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 Zebra Zebra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 52 but but CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 53 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 54 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 55 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 56 advmod _ _ 56 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:parataxis 57 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 obj _ _ 58 " " PUNCT '' _ 56 punct _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past | the Leopard | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this daylight hunting | a perfect scandal | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | past | Leopard | | | | till dark | | tree rules | | 4 | **jump** | past | the Leopard | | | something | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at something=Trajectory | | 5 | **smelt** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | like Zebra | tree rules | | 6 | **feel** *in a quote* | past | hunting | | | | | like Zebra | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like zebra=Theme | | 7 | **knock down** *in a quote* | past | Zebra | hunting | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 8 | **kick** *in a quote* | past | hunting | | | | | like Zebra | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | could | Zebra | hunting | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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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