Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 9
Nqong called "Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, dusty in the sunshine", who said "What, that cat-rabbit?" and ran after him "grinning like a coal-scuttle".
Who acts: Nqong, Dingo · What happens: call, say, rabbit, run, grin · To what, where: Dingo · 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 (Nqong, Dingo), 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 | Nqong | Nqong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dingo | punct |
| 4 | Dingo | dingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dingo | punct |
| 6 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Dog | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yellow | punct |
| 8 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Dingo | compound |
| 9 | Dingo | dingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Dingo | appos |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 hungry | punct |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 hungry | advmod |
| 12 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Dingo | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dusty | punct |
| 14 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Dingo | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sunshine | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sunshine | det |
| 17 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dusty | obl |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 dusty | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Dingo | acl:relcl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 What | punct |
| 23 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 rabbit | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 What | punct |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 rabbit | det |
| 26 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rabbit | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 cat | punct |
| 28 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | ccomp |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 rabbit | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 rabbit | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 ran | cc |
| 32 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | conj |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 ran | obl |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 grinning | punct |
| 36 | grinning | grin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 ran | advcl |
| 37 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 scuttle | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 scuttle | det |
| 39 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 scuttle | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 coal | punct |
| 41 | scuttle | scuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 grinning | obl |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 grinning | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Nqong | Dingo | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dingo=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Dingo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rabbit in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | run | past | Dingo not said here | after Nqong | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | grin in a quote | gerund | Dingo not said here | like a coal scuttle | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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