Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 15
He complained that Dingo had "altered my shape so I'll never get it back; and he's played Old Scratch with my legs" ("Old Scratch" = an old name for the Devil, so "played Old Scratch with" = ruined).
Who acts: Dingo · What happens: complain, alter, not get back, play, ruin · To what, where: shape, Old Scratch · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 complained | nsubj |
| 2 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 altered | mark |
| 4 | Dingo | Dingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 altered | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 altered | aux |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 altered | punct |
| 7 | altered | alter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 complained | ccomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shape | nmod:poss |
| 9 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 altered | obj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 12 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 get | advmod |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 altered | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 played | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 played | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 played | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 played | aux |
| 21 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 complained | conj |
| 22 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Scratch | amod |
| 23 | Scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 played | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 legs | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 legs | nmod:poss |
| 26 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 played | obl |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 legs | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 Scratch | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Scratch | punct |
| 30 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Scratch | amod |
| 31 | Scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 legs | nmod |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Scratch | punct |
| 33 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 36 name | punct |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 name | det |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 name | amod |
| 36 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Scratch | conj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 Devil | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Devil | det |
| 39 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 name | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 played | punct |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 played | advmod |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 played | punct |
| 43 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 complained | parataxis |
| 44 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 Scratch | amod |
| 45 | Scratch | scratch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 played | obj |
| 46 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 49 ruined | mark |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 ruined | punct |
| 48 | = | = | SYM | _ | 49 ruined | dep |
| 49 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 played | advcl |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 played | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 complained | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other | past | Dingo | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | alter in a quote | past · perfect | Dingo | my shape | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not get back in a quote | future | Dingo | shape | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | play in a quote | present · perfect | Dingo | Old Scratch | with my legs Old Scratch and a old name for the Devil | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent scratch=Theme with leg=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | play in a quote | past | Old Scratch | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scratch=Theme | |||||
| 6 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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 ×4, R8-pos-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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