Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 60

Then said Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan, ‘Come and ask me about it tomorrow, because I’m going to wash.’

Who acts: Nqong, I · What happens: say, come, ask, be, go, wash · To what, where: bath, me · 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), 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	from	from	ADP	_	6 bath	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bath	nmod:poss
6	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 pan	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pan	det
9	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pan	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 salt	punct
11	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bath	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Come	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Come	punct
14	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ask	cc
16	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Come	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 ask	iobj
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ask	obl
20	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ask	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ’m	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 ’m	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ’m	nsubj
24	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Come	parataxis
25	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 ’m	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 wash	mark
27	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 going	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 Come	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nqong		Nqong's bath in the salt pan	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive		me		tomorrow	about pan	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about it=Topic
4	be	present	I					tree rules
5	go	gerund	I not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	wash	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn floss-41.2.1 «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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