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title: ‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy, said the Ca… — 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 three words in my praise, and now I can drink the warm white milk three times a day for always and always and always. Who acts: Enemy, ffft, you, I. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 137

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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 three words in my praise, and now I can drink the warm white milk three times a day for always and always and always.

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**Who acts:** Enemy, ffft, you, I, my · **What happens:** say, be, speak, drink, praise · **To what, where:** Cat, I, three words, praise, warm white milk · **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, ffft, you, I), 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:pg2781:12:137
# text = ‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy, said the Cat, ‘it is I; for you have spoken three words in my praise, and now I can drink the warm white milk three times a day 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	16	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	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	parataxis	_	_
29	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
44	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl:unmarked	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:unmarked	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	39	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	49	conj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | ffft | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | you | three words |  | my praise |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drink** | can | I | the warm white milk |  |  | now; time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 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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