Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 11
The Kangaroo ran through "the desert", "the mountains", "the salt-pans", "the reed-beds", "the blue gums" (eucalyptus trees) and "the spinifex" (spiky grass), till his front legs ached.
Who acts: Kangaroo, front legs · What happens: run, ache · To what, where: desert
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 (Kangaroo, front legs), 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 Kangaroo | det |
| 2 | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 desert | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 desert | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 desert | det |
| 7 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 desert | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mountains | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 mountains | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 desert | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 mountains | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pans | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 pans | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pans | det |
| 17 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pans | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 salt | punct |
| 19 | pans | pan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 desert | appos |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 pans | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pans | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 beds | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 beds | det |
| 24 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beds | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 reed | punct |
| 26 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 desert | conj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 beds | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gums | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 gums | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 gums | det |
| 31 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 gums | amod |
| 32 | gums | gum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 beds | conj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 gums | punct |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 trees | punct |
| 35 | eucalyptus | eucalyptus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 trees | compound |
| 36 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 gums | appos |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 trees | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 spinifex | cc |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 spinifex | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 spinifex | det |
| 41 | spinifex | spinifex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gums | conj |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 spinifex | punct |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 45 grass | punct |
| 44 | spiky | spiky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 grass | amod |
| 45 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 spinifex | appos |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 45 grass | punct |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 legs | punct |
| 48 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 52 ached | mark |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 legs | nmod:poss |
| 50 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 legs | amod |
| 51 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 ached | nsubj |
| 52 | ached | ache | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | advcl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the Kangaroo | the desert and the mountains and the reed beds and the blue gums and the spinifex | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through desert=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | ache | past | Kangaroo's front legs | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:11.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×5. 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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