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title: Then he recited the following _Sloka_, which, as you have not heard… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he recited the following _Sloka_, which, as you have not heard it, I will now proceed to relate-- Who acts: Mariner, you, Sloka. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Whale Got His Throat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 32

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Then he recited the following \_Sloka\_, which, as you have not heard it, I will now proceed to relate--

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**Who acts:** Mariner, you, Sloka · **What happens:** recite, follow, not hear, proceed, relate · **To what, where:** Sloka, cross

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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 (Mariner, you, Sloka), 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:pg2781:2:32
# text = Then he recited the following _Sloka_, which, as you have not heard it, I will now proceed to relate--
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recited	recite	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	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	obj	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Sloka	Sloka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	relate	relate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recite** | past | Mariner |  |  |  | then |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  | Sloka |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sloka=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **hear** | present · perfect | you | cross |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **proceed** | future | Sloka |  |  |  | now |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **relate** | to-infinitive | Sloka *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=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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