Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 2
The chase goes on all day across Australia, through deserts, mountains and grass; at a river with no bridge the Kangaroo stands up on his back legs and hops, and his hind legs grow longer and stronger with every bound.
Who acts: chase, Kangaroo, hind legs · What happens: go, stand up, grow · To what, where: Australia, river
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 (chase, Kangaroo, hind 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 chase | det |
| 2 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 Australia | case |
| 8 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 deserts | punct |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 deserts | case |
| 11 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 goes | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mountains | punct |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 deserts | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grass | cc |
| 15 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deserts | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stands | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 river | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 river | det |
| 19 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stands | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 bridge | case |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 bridge | det |
| 22 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 river | nmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Kangaroo | det |
| 24 | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 stands | nsubj |
| 25 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | parataxis |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 stands | compound:prt |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 legs | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 legs | nmod:poss |
| 29 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 legs | amod |
| 30 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stands | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 hops | cc |
| 32 | hops | hop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 legs | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 grow | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 grow | cc |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 legs | nmod:poss |
| 36 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 legs | amod |
| 37 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 grow | nsubj |
| 38 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 stands | conj |
| 39 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 grow | xcomp |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 stronger | cc |
| 41 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 longer | conj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 bound | case |
| 43 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 bound | det |
| 44 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 grow | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | 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 | go | present | the chase | Australia | day | through deserts and mountains and grass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme across australia=Initial_Location through desert=Destination | ||
| 2 | stand up | present | the Kangaroo | a river with no bridge | on Kangaroo's back legs and hops | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at river=Location | |||
| 3 | grow | present | Kangaroo's hind legs | with every bound; long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:2.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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