Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 9

He went to Nqong at ten before dinner-time, saying, ‘Make me different from all other animals; make me popular and wonderfully run after by five this afternoon.’

Who acts: Nquing · What happens: go, say, make, run after · To what, where: Nqong, ten, me · 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 (Nquing), 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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Nqong	case
4	Nqong	Nqong	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 ten	case
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 went	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 dinner	punct
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Make	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Make	punct
15	Make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saying	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 Make	obj
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Make	xcomp
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 animals	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 animals	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 animals	amod
21	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 different	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
23	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 make	obj
25	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 make	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 run	cc
27	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	28 run	advmod
28	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 popular	conj
29	after	after	ADP	_	28 run	compound:prt
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 five	case
31	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 run	obl
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 afternoon	det
33	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 five	nmod:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Nquing		Nqong	ten	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nqong=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Nquing not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	infinitive		me				different property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
4	make	infinitive		me				popular property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
5	run after	participle						by five this afternoon; wonderfully property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by five=Trajectory

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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