Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 7
He went to Nqa "at six before breakfast", to Nquing "at eight after breakfast", and to Nqong "at ten before dinner-time", who was sitting in his bath in the salt-pan; these gods are made up by Kipling for the story.
Who acts: Kangaroo, dinner time, Kipling · What happens: go, sit, make up · To what, where: Nqa, six, bath, gods
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, dinner time, Kipling), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Nqa | case |
| 4 | Nqa | Nqa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 six | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 six | case |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 breakfast | case |
| 9 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 six | nmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 breakfast | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Nquing | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Nquing | case |
| 13 | Nquing | Nquing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 breakfast | appos |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Nquing | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 eight | case |
| 16 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 went | obl |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 breakfast | case |
| 18 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eight | nmod |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 eight | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Nqong | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Nqong | cc |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Nqong | case |
| 23 | Nqong | Nqong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 made | punct |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 ten | case |
| 26 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 time | nmod |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 28 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 time | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 dinner | punct |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Nqong | appos |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 time | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sitting | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 sitting | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sitting | aux |
| 35 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 time | acl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 bath | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 bath | nmod:poss |
| 38 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sitting | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 pan | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 pan | det |
| 41 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 pan | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 salt | punct |
| 43 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sitting | obl |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 made | punct |
| 45 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 46 gods | det |
| 46 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 made | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 made | aux:pass |
| 48 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 Nqong | acl:relcl |
| 49 | up | up | ADP | _ | 48 made | compound:prt |
| 50 | by | by | ADP | _ | 51 Kipling | case |
| 51 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 made | obl:agent |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 story | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 story | det |
| 54 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 made | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Kangaroo | Nqa | six before breakfast | at eight after breakfast; to Nqong | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to nqa=Initial_Location to nqong=Destination | ||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | dinner time at ten | Kangaroo's bath | in the salt pan | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bath=Location | |||
| 3 | make up | present · passive | Kipling | this gods | for the story | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Pivot |
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:7.
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, R8-pos-agree ×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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