--- title: He called it "O you person without any form" (without a shape you ca… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: He called it "O you person without any form" (without a shape you can see) and sat on its head till morning; the hunter did the same with something that kicked "like Giraffe". Who acts: Zebra, you. 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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 (Zebra, you), 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:6 # text = He called it "O you person without any form" (without a shape you can see) and sat on its head till morning; the hunter did the same with something that kicked "like Giraffe". # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 O O INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ _ 8 without without ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 13 without without ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 till till ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nsubj 30 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 obl _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 kicked kick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | Zebra | hunting | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 2 | **person** *in a quote* | | you | | | | | without any form | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | can | you | | | | | without a shape | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **sit** | past | Zebra *not said here* | | | hunting's head | morning | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location | | 5 | **kick** | past | | | | | | like Giraffe | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:6`. **The tree:** 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, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/5/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/)