--- title: It is told like a song, with lines that come round again and again (… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: It is told like a song, with lines that come round again and again ("He had to!"), and it ends with the two tired runners blaming each other: "That's your fault." Who acts: lines, Kangaroo, race, two tired runners. 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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 (lines, Kangaroo, race, two tired runners), 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:4 # text = It is told like a song, with lines that come round again and again ("He had to!"), and it ends with the two tired runners blaming each other: "That's your fault." # 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 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 round round ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 13 again again ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 19 xcomp _ _ 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 with with SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 31 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 runners runner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 blaming blame VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 34 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 33 obj _ _ 35 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 fixed _ _ 36 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 38 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 nsubj _ _ 39 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | race | | | | like a song; with lines | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **come round** | present | lines | | | | again | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Kangaroo | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **end** | present | race | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **blame** | gerund | the two tired runners | each | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | your fault | | | | | tree rules | 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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