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title: He went to Nqong at ten before dinner-time, saying, ‘Make me differe… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: He went to Nqong at ten before dinner-time, saying, ‘Make me different from all other animals; make me popular and wonderfully run after by five this afternoon.’ Who acts: Nquing. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 9

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He went to Nqong at ten before dinner-time, saying, ‘Make me different from all other animals; make me popular and wonderfully run after by five this afternoon.’

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**Who acts:** Nquing · **What happens:** go, say, make, run after · **To what, where:** Nqong, ten, 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 (Nquing), 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:pg2781:7:9
# text = He went to Nqong at ten before dinner-time, saying, ‘Make me different from all other animals; make me popular and wonderfully run after 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	Nqong	Nqong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Nquing |  | Nqong | ten | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to nqong=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Nquing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | different *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | popular *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |
| 5 | **run after** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by five  this afternoon; wonderfully *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by five=Trajectory |

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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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