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title: For far--oh, very far behind, So far she cannot call to him, Comes T… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: For far--oh, very far behind, So far she cannot call to him, Comes Tegumai alone to find The daughter that was all to him. Who acts: Unfearing, that. 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 303

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For far--oh, very far behind, So far she cannot call to him, Comes Tegumai alone to find The daughter that was all to him.

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**Who acts:** Unfearing, that · **What happens:** not call, find, be · **To what, where:** Merrow, daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Unfearing, that), 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:pg2781:10:303
# text = For far--oh, very far behind, So far she cannot call to him, Comes Tegumai alone to find The daughter that was all to him.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	So	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Comes	Comes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **call** | can | Unfearing |  | Merrow |  |  | far *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Unfearing *not said here* | the daughter |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | to Merrow; all *property* | tree rules |

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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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