Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 41

Then came Nqong from his bath in the salt-pans, and said, ‘It’s five o’clock.’

Who acts: Nqong · What happens: come, say · To what, where: bath · 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 (Nqong), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Nqong	Nqong	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 bath	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bath	nmod:poss
6	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 pans	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pans	det
9	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pans	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 salt	punct
11	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bath	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ’s	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 ’s	punct
17	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ’s	nsubj
18	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
19	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 o’clock	nummod
20	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ’s	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Nqong			Nqong's bath in the salt pans	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bath=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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