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title: Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, grinning like a ra… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, grinning like a rat-trap, never getting nearer, never getting farther,--ran after Kangaroo. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 23

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Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, grinning like a rat-trap, never getting nearer, never getting farther,--ran after Kangaroo.

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**What happens:** run, grin, not get · **To what, where:** Dingo

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:7:23
# text = Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, grinning like a rat-trap, never getting nearer, never getting farther,--ran after Kangaroo.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
22	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
26	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past |  | Dingo |  |  | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dingo=Agent |
| 2 | **grin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like a rat trap | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **run** | past |  |  |  |  | after Kangaroo |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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