Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 44

Then said Nqong, who is always a gentleman, ‘Why aren’t you grateful to Yellow-Dog Dingo?

Who acts: Nqong, you · What happens: say, be, not be · To what, where: gentleman · 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, you), 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 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Nqong	Nqong	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gentleman	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 gentleman	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gentleman	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 gentleman	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gentleman	det
9	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Nqong	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grateful	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 grateful	punct
12	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 grateful	advmod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 grateful	cop
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 grateful	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 grateful	nsubj
16	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 Dog	case
18	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Dog	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Yellow	punct
20	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grateful	obl
21	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Dog	appos
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nqong		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Nqong	a gentleman		always property	tree rules
3	not is	present	you			to Yellow Dog; grateful property	tree rules

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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