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title: Then Wild Horse stamped with his wild foot and said, ‘O my Friends a… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Wild Horse stamped with his wild foot and said, ‘O my Friends and O my Enemies, why have the Man and the Woman made that great light in that great Cave, and what harm will it do us?’ Who acts: Wild Horse, Woman, harm. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Hi
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 14

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Then Wild Horse stamped with his wild foot and said, ‘O my Friends and O my Enemies, why have the Man and the Woman made that great light in that great Cave, and what harm will it do us?’

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**Who acts:** Wild Horse, Woman, harm · **What happens:** stamp, say, have, make, do · **To what, where:** Man, great light, great Cave, us · **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 (Wild Horse, Woman, harm), 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:pg2781:12:14
# text = Then Wild Horse stamped with his wild foot and said, ‘O my Friends and O my Enemies, why have the Man and the Woman made that great light in that great Cave, and what harm will it do us?’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Horse	Horse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	parataxis	_	_
39	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl:relcl	_	_
43	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | past | Wild Horse |  |  |  | then | with Horse's wild foot | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with foot=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wild Horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive |  | the Man |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past | the Woman | that great light |  | that great Cave |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Product |
| 5 | **do** | future | harm |  | us |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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