--- title: Nqong called "Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, dusty in the s… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: Nqong called "Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, dusty in the sunshine", who said "What, that cat-rabbit?" and ran after him "grinning like a coal-scuttle". Who acts: 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 (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:9 # text = Nqong called "Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, dusty in the sunshine", who said "What, that cat-rabbit?" and ran after him "grinning like a coal-scuttle". # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Nqong Nqong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Dingo dingo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 -- -- PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 6 Yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Dingo dingo NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 12 advmod _ _ 12 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 dusty dusty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 23 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 nsubj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 26 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 ccomp _ _ 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 32 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 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 `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 grinning grin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 41 scuttle scuttle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past | Nqong | | Dingo | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dingo=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Dingo | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rabbit** *in a quote* | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **run** | past | Dingo *not said here* | | | | after Nqong | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **grin** *in a quote* | gerund | Dingo *not said here* | | | | | like a coal scuttle | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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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