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title: Nobody knows where they went, Or followed the track that they flew i… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody knows where they went, Or followed the track that they flew in, For that Continent Hadn’t been given a name. Who acts: Nobody, legs. 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 66

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Nobody knows where they went, Or followed the track that they flew in, For that Continent Hadn’t been given a name.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, legs · **What happens:** know, go, follow, fly in, not give · **To what, where:** track, Continent · **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 (Nobody, 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:pg2781:7:66
# text = Nobody knows where they went, Or followed the track that they flew in, For that Continent Hadn’t been given a name.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	Continent	Continent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	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 | **know** | present | Nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | past | legs *= leg* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | past |  | the track |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme |
| 4 | **fly in** | past | legs *= leg* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | that Continent |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient name=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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