Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 8
Each time he asked for more: first "Make me different from all other animals", then also "wonderfully popular", then also "popular and wonderfully run after", all "by five this afternoon".
Who acts: Kangaroo, you · What happens: ask, make, run after · To what, where: time, Kangaroo · 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 (Kangaroo, you), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Make | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 time | acl:relcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 more | case |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 asked | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 first | punct |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 Make | advmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Make | punct |
| 10 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Make | obj |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Make | xcomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 animals | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 animals | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 animals | amod |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 different | obl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Make | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 popular | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 popular | advmod |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 popular | advmod |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 popular | punct |
| 22 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 23 popular | advmod |
| 23 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Make | conj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 popular | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 popular | punct |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 popular | advmod |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 popular | advmod |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 popular | punct |
| 29 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Make | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 run | cc |
| 31 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 32 run | advmod |
| 32 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 popular | conj |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 run | compound:prt |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 popular | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 five | punct |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 five | nsubj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 five | punct |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 five | case |
| 39 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 popular | obl |
| 40 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 afternoon | det |
| 41 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 five | nmod |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 five | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Kangaroo | each time not said here | for more | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent time=Recipient | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Kangaroo | time | different, first property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | ||
| 3 | run after in a quote | participle | you not said here | wonderfully property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:8.
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 ×5, R7-rel-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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