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title: But I remember Tegumai Bopsulai, and Taffimai Metallumai and Teshuma… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But I remember Tegumai Bopsulai, and Taffimai Metallumai and Teshumai Tewindrow, her dear Mummy, and all the days gone by. Who acts: I, Taffimai. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 297

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But I remember Tegumai Bopsulai, and Taffimai Metallumai and Teshumai Tewindrow, her dear Mummy, and all the days gone by.

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**Who acts:** I, Taffimai · **What happens:** remember, go by · **To what, where:** Tegumai

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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 (I, Taffimai), 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:pg2781:10:297
# text = But I remember Tegumai Bopsulai, and Taffimai Metallumai and Teshumai Tewindrow, her dear Mummy, and all the days gone by.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Bopsulai	Bopsulai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
8	Taffimai	Taffimai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
9	Metallumai	Metallumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Mummy	mummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present | I | Tegumai |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent tegumai=Theme |
| 2 | **go by** | participle | Taffimai and Teshumai | Tegumai *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tegumai=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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