Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 17
Up jumped Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--and said, ‘What, that cat-rabbit?’
What happens: jump, say · To what, where: Dingo · 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: 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 | Dingo | Dingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obj |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | 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 | 2 jumped | obj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 What | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 What | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rabbit | punct |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 rabbit | det |
| 17 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rabbit | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 cat | punct |
| 19 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 What | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | Dingo | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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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