Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 31
He hopped through the Flinders; he hopped through the Cinders; he hopped through the deserts in the middle of Australia.
Who acts: Kangaroo · What happens: hop · To what, where: Flinders, Cinders, deserts
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 hopped | nsubj |
| 2 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 Flinders | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Flinders | det |
| 5 | Flinders | Flinder | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 hopped | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 hopped | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hopped | nsubj |
| 8 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hopped | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 Cinders | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Cinders | det |
| 11 | Cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hopped | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 hopped | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hopped | nsubj |
| 14 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hopped | conj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 deserts | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 deserts | det |
| 17 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hopped | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 middle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 middle | det |
| 20 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hopped | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Australia | case |
| 22 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 middle | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | Kangaroo | the Flinders | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through flinder=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hop | past | Kangaroo | the Cinders | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cinder=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hop | past | Kangaroo | the deserts | in the middle of Australia | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through desert=Trajectory |
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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