Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 56

Legs are legs, and you needn’t alter ‘em so far as I am concerned.

Who acts: Legs, you, I · What happens: be, not alter · To what, where: legs, em

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 (Legs, 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	Legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 legs	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 legs	cop
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 alter	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 alter	cc
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 alter	nsubj
7	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 alter	aux
8	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 alter	advmod
9	alter	alter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 legs	acl:relcl
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 em	punct
11	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 alter	obl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 far	advmod
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 alter	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 concerned	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 concerned	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 concerned	cop
17	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 far	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 legs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Legs	legs		tree rules
2	not alter	present	you	em = they	far property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	is	present	I		concerned property	tree rules

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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