--- title: The Little God Nqa and the Middle God Nquing both shout "Go away!",… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: The Little God Nqa and the Middle God Nquing both shout "Go away!", but the Big God Nqong says "Yes, I will!" and calls the always-hungry Yellow-Dog Dingo to chase him. Who acts: God Nqa, Big God, hungry Dog Dingo. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God Nqa, Big God, hungry Dog Dingo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson:1 # text = The Little God Nqa and the Middle God Nquing both shout "Go away!", but the Big God Nqong says "Yes, I will!" and calls the always-hungry Yellow-Dog Dingo to chase him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Little Little PROPN NNP _ 3 amod _ _ 3 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Nqa Nqa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 7 Middle Middle PROPN NNP _ 8 amod _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 Nquing nqu PROPN NNP _ 8 flat _ _ 10 both both ADV RB PronType=Tot 11 advmod _ _ 11 shout shout VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Go Go PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 Big Big ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 Nqong Nqong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 23 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 25 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 28 discourse _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 34 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 36 advmod _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 37 Yellow Yellow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 39 Dog Dog PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 40 Dingo Dingo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:acl 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | the God Nqa and Middle God | Go | | | | both *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Big God | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | present | the hungry Dog Dingo | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **chase** | to-infinitive | the hungry Dog Dingo *not said here* | Dingo | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson:1`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6:…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/0/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6:…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/)