Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 25
Still ran Kangaroo--Old Man Kangaroo.
What happens: run · To what, where: Kangaroo
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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obj |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kangaroo | punct |
| 5 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Kangaroo | amod |
| 6 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Kangaroo | flat |
| 7 | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Kangaroo | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Kangaroo and Old Man Kangaroo | still | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kangaroo=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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