Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 3

At five o'clock Nqong stops the race; the Kangaroo is now different from every other animal, and "run after" in two ways, but he is cross and hungry, and so is Dingo.

Who acts: Nqong, Kangaroo · What happens: stop, be · To what, where: race, five o'clock, Dingo

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 (Nqong, Kangaroo), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 o'clock	case
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 o'clock	nummod
3	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stops	obl
4	Nqong	Nqong	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stops	nsubj
5	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 race	det
7	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stops	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 stops	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Kangaroo	det
10	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 different	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 different	cop
12	now	now	ADV	_	13 different	advmod
13	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stops	parataxis
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 animal	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 animal	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 animal	amod
17	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 different	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 run	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 run	cc
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 run	punct
21	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 different	conj
22	after	after	ADV	_	21 run	advmod
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 run	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 ways	case
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 ways	nummod
26	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 run	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cross	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 cross	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cross	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 cross	cop
31	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 run	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hungry	cc
33	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cross	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Dingo	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Dingo	cc
36	so	so	ADV	_	38 Dingo	advmod
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 Dingo	cop
38	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 cross	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stops	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Nqong	the race	five o'clock			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector race=Eventuality
2	is	present	the Kangaroo			now	from every other animal; different property	tree rules
3	is	present	Kangaroo				cross property	tree rules
4	be		Kangaroo not said here					tree rules
5	is a	present	Kangaroo not said here	Dingo				tree rules

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:3.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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