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title: Then the Man said, ‘Yes, but he has not made a bargain with me or wi… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Man said, ‘Yes, but he has not made a bargain with me or with all proper Men after me.’ Who acts: Man. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 143

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Then the Man said, ‘Yes, but he has not made a bargain with me or with all proper Men after me.’

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**Who acts:** Man · **What happens:** say, not make · **To what, where:** bargain · **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 (Man), 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:pg2781:12:143
# text = Then the Man said, ‘Yes, but he has not made a bargain with me or with all proper Men after me.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
21	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	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 | the Man |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **make** | present · perfect | Man | a bargain or all proper Men after me |  |  |  | with me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product |

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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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