Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 10

The joke: to be "run after" can mean to be popular, wanted by everybody, but Nqong makes it come true the other way: Dingo literally runs after him.

Who acts: joke, Nqong, Dingo · What happens: run, mean, be, want, make, come · To what, where: joke, other way

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 (joke, Nqong, 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	2 joke	det
2	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wanted	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 run	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	7 run	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 run	aux:pass
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 run	punct
7	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 joke	acl
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 mean	mark
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 mean	punct
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 mean	aux
11	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 run	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	14 popular	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 popular	cop
14	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mean	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 everybody	case
18	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 wanted	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 makes	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 makes	cc
21	Nqong	Nqong	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 makes	nsubj
22	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wanted	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 makes	obj
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 makes	xcomp
25	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 come	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 way	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 way	amod
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 Dingo	punct
30	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 runs	nsubj
31	literally	literally	ADV	_	32 runs	advmod
32	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 true	parataxis
33	after	after	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 runs	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	the joke not said here				tree rules
2	mean	can					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive				popular property	tree rules
4	want	past	the joke			by everybody	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	make	present	Nqong	joke			tree rules
6	come	infinitive	joke not said here	the other way		true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	run	present	Dingo		after Nqong	literally property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:10.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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