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title: Wild Dog gnawed the bone, and it was more delicious than anything he… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild Dog gnawed the bone, and it was more delicious than anything he had ever tasted, and he said, ‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, give me another.’ Who acts: Wild Dog, smell, Dog, Enemy. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, with its dependency tree a
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 28

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Wild Dog gnawed the bone, and it was more delicious than anything he had ever tasted, and he said, ‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, give me another.’

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**Who acts:** Wild Dog, smell, Dog, Enemy · **What happens:** gnaw, be, taste, say, give · **To what, where:** bone, another, me · **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 Dog, smell, Dog, Enemy), 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:pg2781:12:28
# text = Wild Dog gnawed the bone, and it was more delicious than anything he had ever tasted, and he said, ‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, give me another.’
1	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	2	flat	_	_
2	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	_	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
17	tasted	taste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
33	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gnaw** | past | Wild Dog | the bone |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | smell |  |  |  |  | than anything; delicious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **taste** | past · perfect | Dog |  |  |  | ever |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive | my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy | another | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient another=Theme |

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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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