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title: ‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of My Enemy,’ said the C… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of My Enemy,’ said the Cat, ‘it is I, for you have spoken a second word in my praise, and now I can sit by the warm fire at the back of the Cave for always and always and always. Who acts: Enemy, puff, I, my. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipl
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 123

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‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of My Enemy,’ said the Cat, ‘it is I, for you have spoken a second word in my praise, and now I can sit by the warm fire at the back of the Cave for always and always and always.

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**Who acts:** Enemy, puff, I, my · **What happens:** say, be, speak, sit, praise · **To what, where:** Cat, I, back · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Enemy, puff, I, my), 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:pg2781:12:123
# text = ‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of My Enemy,’ said the Cat, ‘it is I, for you have spoken a second word in my praise, and now I can sit by the warm fire at the back of the Cave for always and always and always.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	_
32	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	41	obl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	53	conj	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of My Enemy | the Cat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | puff | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | can | I |  |  | the back of the Cave | now | by the warm fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |
| 5 | **praise** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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