Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 46

Then said Kangaroo--Tired Old Kangaroo--He’s chased me out of the homes of my childhood; he’s chased me out of my regular meal-times; he’s altered my shape so I’ll never get it back; and he’s played Old Scratch with my legs.’

Who acts: Kangaroo, I · What happens: say, chase, alter, not get back, play · To what, where: me, homes, Kangaroo, shape, Old Scratch · 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 (Kangaroo, I), 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	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 Kangaroo	punct
5	Tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Kangaroo	amod
6	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Kangaroo	amod
7	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Kangaroo	conj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 ’s	punct
9	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ’s	nsubj
10	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
11	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ’s	ccomp
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 chased	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 homes	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 homes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 homes	det
16	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 chased	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 childhood	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 childhood	nmod:poss
19	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 homes	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 ’s	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ’s	nsubj
22	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
23	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ’s	ccomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 chased	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	31 times	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	31 times	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 times	nmod:poss
28	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 times	amod
29	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 times	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 meal	punct
31	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 chased	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 altered	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 altered	nsubj
34	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 altered	aux:pass
35	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 shape	nmod:poss
37	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 altered	obj
38	so	so	ADV	_	42 get	advmod
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 get	nsubj
40	’ll	'll	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 get	aux
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 get	advmod
42	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 altered	advcl
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 get	obj
44	back	back	ADV	_	42 get	advmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 played	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 played	cc
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 played	nsubj
48	’s	's	PUNCT	_	49 played	punct
49	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
50	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 Scratch	amod
51	Scratch	Scratch	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 played	obj
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 legs	case
53	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 legs	nmod:poss
54	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 played	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	49 played	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	49 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kangaroo and Tired Old Kangaroo			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	chase	past		me	the homes of my childhood			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out home=Trajectory
3	chase	past		me		time		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	alter	present · passive		Kangaroo				tree rules
5	not get back	present	I	shape				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	play	past	Kangaroo	Old Scratch			with my legs	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent scratch=Theme with leg=Co-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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