Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 8

He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced on a sandbank in the middle of Australia, and he went to the Big God Nqong.

Who acts: Nquing, pride · What happens: be, dance, go, pride · To what, where: sandbank, Big God Nqong

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 (Nquing, pride), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grey	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grey	cop
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 woolly	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 woolly	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woolly	cop
7	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grey	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 inordinate	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 inordinate	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pride	nmod:poss
11	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inordinate	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 inordinate	cop
13	inordinate	inordinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grey	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 danced	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 danced	nsubj
16	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grey	parataxis
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 sandbank	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sandbank	det
19	sandbank	sandbank	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 danced	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 middle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 middle	det
22	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 danced	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Australia	case
24	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 middle	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 danced	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	33 Nqong	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Nqong	det
31	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Nqong	amod
32	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Nqong	compound
33	Nqong	Nqong	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nquing		grey property	tree rules
2	is	past	Nquing		woolly property	tree rules
3	is	past	Nquing's pride		inordinate property	tree rules
4	dance	past	Nquing	a sandbank	in the middle of Australia	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sandbank=Location
5	go	past	Nquing	the Big God Nqong		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nqong=Initial_Location
6	pride		Nquing			nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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