Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 10

Up jumped Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan and shouted, ‘Yes, I will!’

What happens: jump, shout · To what, where: Nqong, bath

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Up	up	ADV	_	2 jumped	advmod
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Nqong	Nqong	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 bath	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bath	nmod:poss
6	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 pan	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pan	det
9	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pan	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 salt	punct
11	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shouted	cc
13	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 will	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 will	punct
16	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	19 will	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Yes	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 will	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	advcl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 will	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past		Nqong		Nqong's bath		in the salt pan	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nqong=Theme from bath=Initial_Location in pan=Trajectory
2	shout speech: express	past							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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