Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 17
The song at the end calls him "a Boomer" (Australian for a big male kangaroo), says his back legs worked "like pistons", "Twenty-five feet to a bound", and that they ran "From Torres Straits to the Leeuwin", the far north and far south-west corners of Australia.
Who acts: song, back legs, legs · What happens: call, say, work, run · To what, where: Dingo, Torres Straits · 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 (song, back legs, 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 song | det |
| 2 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 end | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 song | nmod |
| 6 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 calls | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Boomer | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Boomer | det |
| 10 | Boomer | boomer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 calls | xcomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Boomer | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Australian | punct |
| 13 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Boomer | appos |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 kangaroo | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 kangaroo | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kangaroo | amod |
| 17 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kangaroo | amod |
| 18 | kangaroo | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Australian | obl |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 Australian | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 says | punct |
| 21 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 calls | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 legs | nmod:poss |
| 23 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 legs | compound |
| 24 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 worked | nsubj |
| 25 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 says | ccomp |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 pistons | punct |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 pistons | case |
| 28 | pistons | piston | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 worked | obl |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 pistons | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 calls | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 feet | punct |
| 32 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 five | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Twenty | punct |
| 34 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 feet | nummod |
| 35 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 bound | nmod:unmarked |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 bound | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 bound | det |
| 38 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 calls | obj |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 bound | punct |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 ran | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 ran | cc |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 ran | mark |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 ran | nsubj |
| 44 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 calls | conj |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 Straits | punct |
| 46 | From | from | ADP | _ | 48 Straits | case |
| 47 | Torres | Torres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Straits | compound |
| 48 | Straits | Strait | PROPN | Number=Plur | 44 ran | obl |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 Leeuwin | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Leeuwin | det |
| 51 | Leeuwin | Leeuwin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Straits | nmod |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 Straits | punct |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 ran | punct |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 corners | det |
| 55 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 north | amod |
| 56 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 corners | compound |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 corners | cc |
| 58 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 62 corners | advmod |
| 59 | south | south | ADV | _ | 58 far | advmod |
| 60 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 far | punct |
| 61 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 corners | amod |
| 62 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 Straits | appos |
| 63 | of | of | ADP | _ | 64 Australia | case |
| 64 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 corners | nmod |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | the song at the end | Dingo | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme bound=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the song at the end not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | work | past | Dingo's back legs | like pistons | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | run | past | legs = leg | Torres Straits to the Leeuwin | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from strait=Trajectory |
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:17.
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 ×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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