Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 3

He went to Nqa at six before breakfast, saying, ‘Make me different from all other animals by five this afternoon.’

Who acts: Kangaroo · What happens: go, say, make · To what, where: Nqa, six, me · 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 (Kangaroo), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Nqa	case
4	Nqa	Nqa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 six	case
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 went	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 breakfast	case
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Make	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Make	punct
13	Make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 saying	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 Make	obj
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Make	xcomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 animals	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 animals	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 animals	amod
19	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 different	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 five	case
21	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 Make	obl
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 afternoon	det
23	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Make	obl:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Kangaroo		Nqa	six	before breakfast		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nqa=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Kangaroo not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	infinitive		me			afternoon	by five; different property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product

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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