Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 4

It is told like a song, with lines that come round again and again ("He had to!"), and it ends with the two tired runners blaming each other: "That's your fault."

Who acts: lines, Kangaroo, race, two tired runners, That · What happens: tell, come round, have, end, blame, be · To what, where: race, each, fault · 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 (lines, Kangaroo, race, two tired runners), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 song	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 song	det
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 lines	case
9	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 come	nsubj
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lines	acl:relcl
12	round	round	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 again	cc
15	again	again	ADV	_	13 again	conj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	19 had	xcomp
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ends	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ends	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ends	nsubj
27	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
28	with	with	SCONJ	_	33 blaming	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 runners	det
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 runners	nummod
31	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 runners	amod
32	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 blaming	nsubj
33	blaming	blame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 ends	advcl
34	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	33 blaming	obj
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 each	fixed
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 fault	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 fault	punct
38	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 fault	nsubj
39	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 fault	cop
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 fault	nmod:poss
41	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 fault	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 fault	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		race		like a song; with lines	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come round	present	lines		again	round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have in a quote	past	Kangaroo				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	end	present	race				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	blame	gerund	the two tired runners	each			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
6	is a in a quote	present	That	your fault			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:4.

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, R6-punct-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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