Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 67
They ran thirty degrees, From Torres Straits to the Leeuwin (Look at the Atlas, please), And they ran back as they came.
Who acts: legs · What happens: run, look, run back, come · To what, where: thirty degrees, Atlas
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 degrees | nummod |
| 4 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ran | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Straits | punct |
| 6 | From | from | ADP | _ | 8 Straits | case |
| 7 | Torres | Torres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Straits | compound |
| 8 | Straits | Strait | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 ran | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Leeuwin | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Leeuwin | det |
| 11 | Leeuwin | Leeuwin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Look | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Look | punct |
| 13 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ran | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Atlas | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Atlas | det |
| 16 | Atlas | Atlas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Look | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 please | punct |
| 18 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 13 Look | discourse |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 please | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ran | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ran | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 came | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ran | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | legs = leg | thirty degrees | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme degree=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | legs = leg not said here | the Atlas | to the Leeuwin | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to leeuwin=Theme | |||
| 3 | run back | past | legs = leg | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | legs = leg | vn escape-51.1-1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/7/67/