--- title: Then said Baviaan, ‘The aboriginal Fauna has joined the aboriginal F… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then said Baviaan, ‘The aboriginal Fauna has joined the aboriginal Flora because it was high time for a change; and my advice to you, Ethiopian, is to change as soon as you can.’ Who acts: Baviaan, aboriginal Fauna, Fauna, advice. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard G --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [How the Leopard Got His Spots](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/) / 22 # Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 22 Then said Baviaan, ‘The aboriginal Fauna has joined the aboriginal Flora because it was high time for a change; and my advice to you, Ethiopian, is to change as soon as you can.’ **Who acts:** Baviaan, aboriginal Fauna, Fauna, advice · **What happens:** say, join, be · **To what, where:** aboriginal Flora, high time · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Baviaan, aboriginal Fauna, Fauna, advice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2781:5:22 # text = Then said Baviaan, ‘The aboriginal Fauna has joined the aboriginal Flora because it was high time for a change; and my advice to you, Ethiopian, is to change as soon as you can.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Baviaan Baviaan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 aboriginal aboriginal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Fauna Fauna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 aboriginal aboriginal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Flora Flora PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Ethiopian Ethiopian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 34 as as ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Baviaan | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **join** | present · perfect | the aboriginal Fauna | the aboriginal Flora | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flora=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | past | Fauna | high time | | | | for a change | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | my advice to you | | | | | change, soon *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/23/) - ↑ back to [How the Leopard Got His Spots](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/)