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title: The end part is ah-carp-fish-mouth; but what can we do about the fro… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The end part is ah-carp-fish-mouth; but what can we do about the front part? Who acts: end part, we. 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 56

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The end part is ah-carp-fish-mouth; but what can we do about the front part?

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**Who acts:** end part, we · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** carp fish mouth

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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 (end part, we), 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:pg2781:10:56
# text = The end part is ah-carp-fish-mouth; but what can we do about the front part?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
5	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	carp	carp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the end part | carp fish mouth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | can | we | carp fish mouth |  |  |  | about the front part | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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