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title: He went West, and he found All-the-Beaver-there-was making a beaver-… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: He went West, and he found All-the-Beaver-there-was making a beaver-dam across the mouths of broad rivers that had been got ready for him. Who acts: other, All. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 21

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He went West, and he found All-the-Beaver-there-was making a beaver-dam across the mouths of broad rivers that had been got ready for him.

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**Who acts:** other, All · **What happens:** go, find, make, get · **To what, where:** beaver dam, mouths, broad rivers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, All), 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:pg2781:11:21
# text = He went West, and he found All-the-Beaver-there-was making a beaver-dam across the mouths of broad rivers that had been got ready for him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	West	west	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	dam	dam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	across	across	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | other |  |  |  |  | west *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | other |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past · progressive | All | a beaver dam |  | the mouths of broad rivers |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dam=Product |
| 4 | **get** | past · perfect · passive |  | broad rivers |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING» |

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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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