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title: And if you draw it on a tree by the river when you are fishing, I’ll… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
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# Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 102

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And if you draw it on a tree by the river when you are fishing, I’ll know you want me to walk most most mousy-quiet, so as not to shake the banks.’

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**Who acts:** you, I, me · **What happens:** draw, fish, know, want, walk, not shake · **To what, where:** ’re, tree, you, me, most, banks

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, me), 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:pg2781:10:102
# text = And if you draw it on a tree by the river when you are fishing, I’ll know you want me to walk most most mousy-quiet, so as not to shake the banks.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	fishing	fish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	obl	_	_
26	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
27	mousy	mousy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | ’re *= 're* |  | a tree |  | by the river | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on tree=Destination |
| 2 | **fish** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | future | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **want** | infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **walk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | most |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **shake** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | the banks |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bank=Patient |

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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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