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title: ‘If you had not said that last I would have shut my mouth for always… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If you had not said that last I would have shut my mouth for always and always and always; but now I am going to hunt you up a tree whenever I meet you. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 159

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‘If you had not said that last I would have shut my mouth for always and always and always; but now I am going to hunt you up a tree whenever I meet you.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not say, shut, go, hunt up, meet · **To what, where:** mouth, you · **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 (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:pg2781:12:159
# text = ‘If you had not said that last I would have shut my mouth for always and always and always; but now I am going to hunt you up a tree whenever I meet you.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
7	that	that	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
33	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl:relcl	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | that last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shut** | would · perfect | I | my mouth |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hunt up** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  | whenever *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **meet** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-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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