Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 62
THIS is the mouth-filling song Of the race that was run by a Boomer, Run in a single burst--only event of its kind-- Started by big God Nqong from Warrigaborrigarooma, Old Man Kangaroo first: Yellow-Dog Dingo behind.
Who acts: THIS, Boomer · What happens: fill, be, run, start · To what, where: filling song, race, single burst
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 (THIS, Boomer), 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 | THIS | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 song | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 song | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 song | det |
| 4 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filling | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 mouth | punct |
| 6 | filling | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 song | amod |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 10 race | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 race | det |
| 10 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 song | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 run | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 run | aux:pass |
| 13 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 race | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Boomer | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Boomer | det |
| 16 | Boomer | boomer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 run | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Run | punct |
| 18 | Run | Run | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Boomer | appos |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 burst | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 burst | det |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 burst | amod |
| 22 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 run | obl |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 event | punct |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 event | advmod |
| 25 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 burst | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 kind | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 kind | nmod:poss |
| 28 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 event | nmod |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 Started | punct |
| 30 | Started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 song | conj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 Nqong | case |
| 32 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Nqong | amod |
| 33 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Nqong | compound |
| 34 | Nqong | Nqong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Started | obl:agent |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 Warrigaborrigarooma | case |
| 36 | Warrigaborrigarooma | Warrigaborrigarooma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Nqong | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Kangaroo | punct |
| 38 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Kangaroo | amod |
| 39 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Kangaroo | flat |
| 40 | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Nqong | conj |
| 41 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 Started | advmod |
| 42 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 46 Dingo | punct |
| 43 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 Dog | amod |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 Yellow | punct |
| 45 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 Dingo | compound |
| 46 | Dingo | Dingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 song | conj |
| 47 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 46 Dingo | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 song | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | THIS | the filling song and Dog Dingo | of the race | tree rules | |||
| 3 | run | past · passive | a Boomer | the race | a single burst and event of event's kind | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in burst=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | start | participle | THIS not said here | first property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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