Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 61
So they were left in the middle of Australia, Old Man Kangaroo and Yellow-Dog Dingo, and each said, ‘That’s your fault.’
Who acts: That · What happens: leave, say, be · To what, where: legs, middle, each, fault · 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 (That), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 middle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 middle | det |
| 7 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Australia | case |
| 9 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 middle | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Kangaroo | punct |
| 11 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Kangaroo | amod |
| 12 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kangaroo | flat |
| 13 | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 middle | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Dingo | cc |
| 15 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Dog | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Yellow | punct |
| 17 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Dingo | compound |
| 18 | Dingo | Dingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kangaroo | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 said | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fault | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 fault | punct |
| 25 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 fault | nsubj |
| 26 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 fault | cop |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fault | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | legs = leg | the middle of Australia | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in middle=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle · passive | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | That | your fault | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/7/61/