Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 53
‘Say that again and I’ll whistle up Dingo and run your hind legs off.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, whistle up, run off · To what, where: that, Dingo, hind legs · 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 (you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
| 2 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Say | obj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 Say | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 whistle | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 whistle | nsubj |
| 7 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 whistle | aux |
| 8 | whistle | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Say | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 whistle | compound:prt |
| 10 | Dingo | Dingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 whistle | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 run | cc |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 whistle | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 legs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 legs | amod |
| 15 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 run | obj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 run | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | that | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 2 | whistle up | future | I | Dingo | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dingo=Topic | ||||
| 3 | run off | infinitive | I not said here | your hind legs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leg=Trajectory |
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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