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title: Yellow-Dog Dingo lay Like a yellow cloud in the distance-- Much too… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Yellow-Dog Dingo lay Like a yellow cloud in the distance-- Much too busy to bark. Who acts: Yellow Dog. 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 64

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Yellow-Dog Dingo lay Like a yellow cloud in the distance-- Much too busy to bark.

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**Who acts:** Yellow Dog · **What happens:** lay, bark

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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 (Yellow Dog), 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:pg2781:7:64
# text = Yellow-Dog Dingo lay Like a yellow cloud in the distance-- Much too busy to bark.
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	bark	bark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | Yellow Dog |  |  |  |  | like a yellow cloud in the distance | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bark** | to-infinitive | Yellow Dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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