Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 5

He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced on a rock-ledge in the middle of Australia, and he went to the Middle God Nquing.

Who acts: Nqa, pride · What happens: be, dance, go, pride · To what, where: rock ledge, God Nquing

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 (Nqa, pride), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grey	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grey	cop
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 woolly	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 woolly	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woolly	cop
7	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grey	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 inordinate	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 inordinate	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pride	nmod:poss
11	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inordinate	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 inordinate	cop
13	inordinate	inordinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grey	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 danced	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 danced	nsubj
16	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grey	parataxis
17	on	on	ADP	_	21 ledge	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ledge	det
19	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ledge	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 rock	punct
21	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 danced	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 middle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 middle	det
24	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ledge	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Australia	case
26	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 middle	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 danced	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	35 Nquing	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Nquing	det
33	Middle	Middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 God	amod
34	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Nquing	compound
35	Nquing	Nquing	PROPN	_	30 went	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nqa		grey property	tree rules
2	is	past	Nqa		woolly property	tree rules
3	is	past	Nqa's pride		inordinate property	tree rules
4	dance	past	Nqa	a rock ledge in the middle of Australia		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ledge=Location
5	go	past	Nqa	the God Nquing		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nquing=Initial_Location
6	pride		Nqa			nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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