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title: He went to Nqa at six before breakfast, saying, ‘Make me different f… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: He went to Nqa at six before breakfast, saying, ‘Make me different from all other animals by five this afternoon.’ Who acts: 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 3

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He went to Nqa at six before breakfast, saying, ‘Make me different from all other animals by five this afternoon.’

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**Who acts:** Kangaroo · **What happens:** go, say, make · **To what, where:** Nqa, six, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Kangaroo), 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:pg2781:7:3
# text = He went to Nqa at six before breakfast, saying, ‘Make me different from all other animals by five this afternoon.’
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	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Kangaroo |  | Nqa | six | before breakfast |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to nqa=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Kangaroo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive |  | me |  |  | afternoon | by five; different *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |

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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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