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title: And the small ‘Stute Fish said in a small ‘stute voice, ‘Noble and g… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And the small ‘Stute Fish said in a small ‘stute voice, ‘Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?’ Who acts: small, you. 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 6

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And the small ‘Stute Fish said in a small ‘stute voice, ‘Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?’

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**Who acts:** small, you · **What happens:** say, have, taste · **To what, where:** small stute voice, Man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (small, you), 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:pg2781:2:6
# text = And the small ‘Stute Fish said in a small ‘stute voice, ‘Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Stute	Stute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Fish	Fish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	stute	stute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Cetacean	Cetacean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
24	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	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 small |  |  | a small stute voice |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **taste** | past | you | Man |  |  | ever |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme man=Attribute |

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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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