Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 52

‘Joke!’ said Nqong from his bath in the blue gums.

Who acts: Joke · What happens: say · To what, where: bath · 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 (Joke), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Joke	punct
2	Joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Joke	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Joke	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Nqong	Nqong	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 bath	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bath	nmod:poss
9	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 gums	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gums	det
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gums	amod
13	gums	gum	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Joke			joke's bath		in the blue gums	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in gum=Manner

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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