Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 15
He wants to be popular and very truly run after.
Who acts: gentleman · What happens: want, be, run
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 (gentleman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 popular | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 popular | cop |
| 5 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 run | cc |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 truly | advmod |
| 8 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 9 run | advmod |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 popular | conj |
| 10 | after | after | ADV | _ | 9 run | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | gentleman | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | gentleman not said here | popular property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | infinitive | gentleman not said here | after, truly 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.
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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