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title: OF all the Tribe of Tegumai Who cut that figure, none remain,-- On M… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: OF all the Tribe of Tegumai Who cut that figure, none remain,-- On Merrow Down the cuckoos cry The silence and the sun remain. Who acts: none, cuckoos. 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 299

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OF all the Tribe of Tegumai Who cut that figure, none remain,-- On Merrow Down the cuckoos cry The silence and the sun remain.

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**Who acts:** none, cuckoos · **What happens:** cut, remain, cry · **To what, where:** figure, Merrow, silence

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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 (none, cuckoos), 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:pg2781:10:299
# text = OF all the Tribe of Tegumai Who cut that figure, none remain,-- On Merrow Down the cuckoos cry The silence and the sun remain.
1	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
13	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	On	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Merrow	Merrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	Down	down	ADP	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cuckoos	cuckoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	cry	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
22	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | past |  | that figure |  |  |  | of all Tribe of Tegumai | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent figure=Patient of tribe=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **remain** | present | none |  |  | Merrow |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on merrow=Location |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | the cuckoos | the silence and the sun |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Topic |
| 4 | **remain** | present | the cuckoos *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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