Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 11

Nqong called Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, dusty in the sunshine, and showed him Kangaroo.

Who acts: Nqong · What happens: call, show · To what, where: Dingo, Kangaroo, Nqong · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (Nqong), 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	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	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 Dingo	punct
5	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Dog	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Yellow	punct
7	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Dingo	compound
8	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Dingo	appos
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 hungry	punct
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 hungry	advmod
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 called	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dusty	punct
13	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hungry	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 sunshine	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sunshine	det
16	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dusty	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 showed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 showed	cc
19	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 showed	iobj
21	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 showed	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	Nqong		Dingo				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dingo=Recipient
2	show	past	Nqong not said here	Kangaroo	Nqong				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kangaroo=Topic

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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