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title: So the Whale swam and swam to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Whale swam and swam to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West, as fast as he could swim, and _on_ a raft, _in_ the middle of the sea, _with_ nothing to wear except a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must particularly remember the suspenders, Best Beloved), _and_ a j
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# Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 14

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So the Whale swam and swam to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West, as fast as he could swim, and \_on\_ a raft, \_in\_ the middle of the sea, \_with\_ nothing to wear except a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must particularly remember the suspenders, Best Beloved), \_and\_ a jack-knife, he found one single, solitary shipwrecked Mariner, trailing his toes in the water.

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**Who acts:** Whale, you, jack knife, one single solitary · **What happens:** swim, wear, remember, find, shipwreck, trail · **To what, where:** raft, latitude, suspenders, one single solitary, Mariner, toes

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Whale Got His Throat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whale, you, jack knife, one single solitary), 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:pg2781:2:14
# text = So the Whale swam and swam to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West, as fast as he could swim, and _on_ a raft, _in_ the middle of the sea, _with_ nothing to wear except a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must particularly remember the suspenders, Best Beloved), _and_ a jack-knife, he found one single, solitary shipwrecked Mariner, trailing his toes in the water.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	latitude	latitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	longitude	longitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Forty	forty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	West	west	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	_
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	parataxis	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	acl	_	_
45	except	except	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	canvas	canvas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	suspenders	suspender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	_
57	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
59	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
60	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	parataxis	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	suspenders	suspender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
65	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	66	amod	_	_
66	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
69	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	78	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	78	punct	_	_
72	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
73	jack	jack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	75	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	73	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	75	punct	_	_
77	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	78	nsubj	_	_
78	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
79	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	82	nummod	_	_
80	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	82	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
82	solitary	solitary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	obj	_	_
83	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	82	acl	_	_
84	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	83	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
85	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	86	punct	_	_
86	trailing	trail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	78	advcl	_	_
87	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	88	nmod:poss	_	_
88	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	86	obj	_	_
89	in	in	ADP	IN	_	91	case	_	_
90	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	91	det	_	_
91	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
92	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past | the Whale |  |  | a raft in the middle of the sea and \_ |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on raft=Trajectory |
| 2 | **swim** | past | the Whale *not said here* |  |  | latitude |  | fast, west *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to latitude=Destination |
| 3 | **swim** | could | Whale |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | to-infinitive | the Whale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | except a pair of blue canvas breeches and a pair of suspenders | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **remember** | must | you | the suspenders |  |  |  | Best Beloved *vocative*; particularly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent suspender=Theme |
| 6 | **find** | past | a jack knife | one single solitary |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solitary=Topic |
| 7 | **shipwreck** | participle | one single solitary *not said here* | Mariner |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mariner=Patient |
| 8 | **trail** | gerund | a jack knife *not said here* | sea's toes |  | the water |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toe=Theme in water=Trajectory |

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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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