Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 6
He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate" ("inordinate" = far too much).
Who acts: Kangaroo, pride · What happens: be, pride
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 (Kangaroo, pride), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grey | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grey | cop |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 woolly | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 woolly | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 woolly | cop |
| 7 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grey | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 inordinate | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 inordinate | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pride | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 inordinate | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 inordinate | cop |
| 13 | inordinate | inordinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grey | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 inordinate | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 inordinate | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 inordinate | punct |
| 17 | inordinate | inordinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 inordinate | conj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 inordinate | punct |
| 19 | = | = | SYM | _ | 22 much | punct |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 much | advmod |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 inordinate | conj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 much | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grey | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Kangaroo | grey property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Kangaroo | woolly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Kangaroo's pride | inordinate property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Kangaroo's pride not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be in a quote | Kangaroo's pride not said here | far property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | pride | Kangaroo | nom pride «feeling 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:6.
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): 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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