Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 63
Kangaroo bounded away, His back-legs working like pistons-- Bounded from morning till dark, Twenty-five feet to a bound.
Who acts: back legs · What happens: bound away, work, bound · To what, where: Kangaroo, five feet, pistons
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 (back legs), 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 | Kangaroo | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Kangaroo | acl |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 bounded | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 legs | punct |
| 5 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 legs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 legs | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 back | punct |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kangaroo | conj |
| 9 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 legs | acl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 pistons | case |
| 11 | pistons | piston | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 working | obl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 Bounded | punct |
| 13 | Bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pistons | acl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 morning | case |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Bounded | obl |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 dark | case |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Bounded | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feet | punct |
| 19 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 five | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Twenty | punct |
| 21 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 feet | nummod |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 working | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 bound | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bound | det |
| 25 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 working | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kangaroo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound away | participle | Kangaroo and Kangaroo's back legs not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | gerund | Kangaroo's back legs not said here | five feet | like pistons; to a bound | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | bound | participle | pistons not said here | till dark; morning | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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