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title: Still ran Dingo--Tired-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, very much b… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Still ran Dingo--Tired-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, very much bewildered, and wondering when in the world or out of it would Old Man Kangaroo stop. 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 40

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Still ran Dingo--Tired-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, very much bewildered, and wondering when in the world or out of it would Old Man Kangaroo stop.

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**What happens:** run, bewilder, wonder · **To what, where:** Dingo, Dog 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:pg2781:7:40
# text = Still ran Dingo--Tired-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, very much bewildered, and wondering when in the world or out of it would Old Man Kangaroo stop.
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	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Tired	tired	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	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
31	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	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 | Dog Dingo *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dingo=Agent |
| 2 | **bewilder** | participle |  | Dog Dingo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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