Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 45
Why don’t you thank him for all he has done for you?’
Who acts: you, Nqong · What happens: not thank, do · To what, where: Nqong
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 (you, 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 n’t | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 n’t | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 thank | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 thank | nsubj |
| 5 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thank | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 thank | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 all | acl:relcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 thank | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 thank | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not thank speech: thank | present | you | Nqong | for all; for you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for all=Attribute | |||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | Nqong | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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