--- title: He went to Nqa "at six before breakfast", to Nquing "at eight after… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: He went to Nqa "at six before breakfast", to Nquing "at eight after breakfast", and to Nqong "at ten before dinner-time", who was sitting in his bath in the salt-pan; these gods are made up by Kipling for the story. Who acts: Kangaroo, dinner time, Kipling. 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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 (Kangaroo, dinner time, Kipling), 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:7 # text = He went to Nqa "at six before breakfast", to Nquing "at eight after breakfast", and to Nqong "at ten before dinner-time", who was sitting in his bath in the salt-pan; these gods are made up by Kipling for the story. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Nqa Nqa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 8 before before ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Nquing Nquing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Nqong Nqong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nmod _ _ 27 before before ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ _ 43 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nmod 44 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 45 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 46 det _ _ 46 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 47 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux:pass _ _ 48 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ _ 49 up up ADP RP _ 48 compound:prt _ _ 50 by by ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 obl:agent _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=48:obl:agent|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 52 for for ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Kangaroo | | Nqa | six before breakfast | | at eight after breakfast; to Nqong | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to nqa=Initial\_Location to nqong=Destination | | 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | dinner time at ten | | | Kangaroo's bath | | in the salt pan | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bath=Location | | 3 | **make up** | present · passive | Kipling | this gods | | | | for the story | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Pivot | 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:7`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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:…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/6/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6:…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/)