Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 1
The Little God Nqa and the Middle God Nquing both shout "Go away!", but the Big God Nqong says "Yes, I will!" and calls the always-hungry Yellow-Dog Dingo to chase him.
Who acts: God Nqa, Big God, hungry Dog Dingo · What happens: shout, say, call, chase · To what, where: Go, Dingo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God Nqa, Big God, hungry Dog Dingo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Nqa | det |
| 2 | Little | Little | PROPN | _ | 3 God | amod |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Nqa | compound |
| 4 | Nqa | Nqa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 shout | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 God | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Nquing | det |
| 7 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | _ | 8 God | amod |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Nqa | conj |
| 9 | Nquing | nqu | PROPN | _ | 8 God | flat |
| 10 | both | both | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 shout | advmod |
| 11 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Go | punct |
| 13 | Go | Go | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 shout | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 Go | advmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Go | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Go | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 says | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 says | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Nqong | det |
| 20 | Big | Big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 God | amod |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 says | nsubj |
| 22 | Nqong | Nqong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 God | flat |
| 23 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shout | conj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 will | punct |
| 25 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 28 will | discourse |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Yes | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 will | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 says | ccomp |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 will | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 will | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 calls | cc |
| 32 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 says | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Dingo | det |
| 34 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 36 hungry | advmod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 always | punct |
| 36 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Dingo | amod |
| 37 | Yellow | Yellow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Dog | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Yellow | punct |
| 39 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Dingo | compound |
| 40 | Dingo | Dingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 calls | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 chase | mark |
| 42 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 calls | advcl |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 chase | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shout | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | the God Nqa and Middle God | Go | both property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Big God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | present | the hungry Dog Dingo | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | chase | to-infinitive | the hungry Dog Dingo not said here | Dingo | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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, 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:081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson:1.
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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.
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