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title: Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, grinning l… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, grinning like a horse-collar, never getting nearer, never getting farther; and they came to the Wollgong River. Who acts: legs. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, with its dependency tree an
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# Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 28

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Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, grinning like a horse-collar, never getting nearer, never getting farther; and they came to the Wollgong River.

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**Who acts:** legs · **What happens:** run, grin, not get, come · **To what, where:** Dingo, Wollgong River

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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: who acts (legs), 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:pg2781:7:28
# text = Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, grinning like a horse-collar, never getting nearer, never getting farther; and they came to the Wollgong River.
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	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	hungrier	hungry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hungrier	hungry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
23	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
27	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Wollgong	Wollgong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past |  | Dingo |  |  | still | Dog Dingo *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dingo=Agent |
| 2 | **grin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like a horse collar | 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 | **come** | past | legs *= leg* |  |  | the Wollgong River |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial\_Location |

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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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