Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 4
Up jumped Nqa from his seat on the sandflat and shouted, ‘Go away!’
What happens: jump, shout, go away · To what, where: Nqa, seat · 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 | Nqa | Nqa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 seat | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 seat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 sandflat | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sandflat | det |
| 9 | sandflat | sandflat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shouted | cc |
| 11 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Go | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Go | punct |
| 14 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 shouted | ccomp |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 Go | advmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Go | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | Nqa | Nqa's seat | on the sandflat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nqa=Theme from seat=Initial_Location on sandflat=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | go away | infinitive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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