--- title: The joke: to be "run after" can mean to be popular, wanted by everyb… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: The joke: to be "run after" can mean to be popular, wanted by everybody, but Nqong makes it come true the other way: Dingo literally runs after him. Who acts: joke, Nqong, 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 (joke, Nqong, 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:10 # text = The joke: to be "run after" can mean to be popular, wanted by everybody, but Nqong makes it come true the other way: Dingo literally runs after 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 8 after after SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 mean mean VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 14 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 16 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 Nqong Nqong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nsubj 29 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Dingo Dingo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 literally literally ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 33 after after ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | the joke *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | can | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | popular *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **want** | past | the joke | | | | | by everybody | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **make** | present | Nqong | joke | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | infinitive | joke *not said here* | the other way | | | | true *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **run** | present | Dingo | | | | after Nqong | literally *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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. **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. 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