Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 47

Then said Nqong, ‘Perhaps I’m mistaken, but didn’t you ask me to make you different from all other animals, as well as to make you very truly sought after?

Who acts: Nqong, I, you · What happens: say, be, not ask, make, seek after · To what, where: me, you · 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, I, 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	_	8 ’m	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 ’m	punct
6	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	8 ’m	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 ’m	nsubj
8	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
9	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ’m	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ask	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 ask	cc
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ask	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 ask	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 ask	nsubj
15	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 ask	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ask	xcomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 make	obj
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 make	xcomp
21	from	from	ADP	_	24 animals	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 animals	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 animals	amod
24	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 different	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 make	punct
26	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	30 make	cc
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 as	fixed
28	as	as	ADP	_	26 as	fixed
29	to	to	PART	_	30 make	mark
30	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 make	obj
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 truly	advmod
33	truly	truly	ADV	_	34 sought	advmod
34	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 make	advcl
35	after	after	ADP	_	34 sought	compound:prt
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to 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	be	present	I				mistaken, perhaps property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not ask speech: ask	past · do-support	you		me			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	you			different property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
5	make	to-infinitive		you				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
6	seek after	participle					truly property	vn hunt-35.1 «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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