Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 20

Real biology: dingoes are Australia's wild dogs, which came with people thousands of years ago and really do hunt kangaroos; but kangaroos got their long legs over millions of years, not in one afternoon's chase.

Who acts: dingoes, wild dogs, kangaroos, one afternoon · What happens: be, come, hunt, get, chase · To what, where: wild dogs, kangaroos, long legs, millions

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 (dingoes, wild dogs, kangaroos, one afternoon), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 biology	amod
2	biology	biology	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 dogs	punct
4	dingoes	dingo	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dogs	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dogs	cop
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dogs	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Australia	case
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dogs	amod
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 biology	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dogs	acl:relcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 people	case
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	obl
15	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ago	obl:unmarked
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 years	case
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thousands	nmod
18	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hunt	cc
20	really	really	ADV	_	22 hunt	advmod
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hunt	aux
22	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	conj
23	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hunt	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 got	cc
26	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 got	nsubj
27	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 biology	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 legs	nmod:poss
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 legs	amod
30	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 got	obj
31	over	over	ADP	_	32 millions	case
32	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 got	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 years	case
34	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 millions	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 chase	punct
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 chase	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	41 chase	case
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 afternoon	nummod
39	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 chase	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 afternoon	case
41	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 got	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 biology	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	dingoes	Australia's wild dogs			tree rules
2	come	past	Australia's wild dogs			with people; ago property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hunt	present · do-support	Australia's wild dogs not said here	kangaroos			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kangaroo=Theme
4	get	past	kangaroos	biology's long legs	millions of years	in one afternoon's chase	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus
5	chase		one afternoon				nom chase «act transitive»: poss=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:20.

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. 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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