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title: ‘Member it wasn’t the Low Veldt, or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veld… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Member it wasn’t the Low Veldt, or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veldt, but the ‘sclusively bare, hot, shiny High Veldt, where there was sand and sandy-coloured rock and ‘sclusively tufts of sandy-yellowish grass. Who acts: Leopard, Bush Veldt. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How 
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# Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 2

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‘Member it wasn’t the Low Veldt, or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veldt, but the ‘sclusively bare, hot, shiny High Veldt, where there was sand and sandy-coloured rock and ‘sclusively tufts of sandy-yellowish grass.

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**Who acts:** Leopard, Bush Veldt · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** Member Low Veldt, sand

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard Got His Spots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leopard, Bush Veldt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:5:2
# text = ‘Member it wasn’t the Low Veldt, or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veldt, but the ‘sclusively bare, hot, shiny High Veldt, where there was sand and sandy-coloured rock and ‘sclusively tufts of sandy-yellowish grass.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Veldt	Veldt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Bush	Bush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Veldt	Veldt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Sour	Sour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Veldt	Veldt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Veldt	Veldt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
33	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	sclusively	sclusively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	tufts	tuft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	yellowish	yellowish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | Leopard | the Member Low Veldt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Bush Veldt or the Sour Veldt but the hot shiny High Veldt | sand and coloured rock and sclusively tufts of yellowish grass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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