--- title: ‘Well, make up your mind,’ said the Ethiopian, ‘because I’d hate to… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well, make up your mind,’ said the Ethiopian, ‘because I’d hate to go hunting without you, but I must if you insist on looking like a sun-flower against a tarred fence.’ Who acts: Ethiopian, I, you, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ethiopian, I, you, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2781:5:101 # text = ‘Well, make up your mind,’ said the Ethiopian, ‘because I’d hate to go hunting without you, but I must if you insist on looking like a sun-flower against a tarred fence.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Ethiopian Ethiopian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’d have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 hate hate NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ _ 21 hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 without without ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 28 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 insist insist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 31 on on SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 against against ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 tarred tar VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 amod _ _ 41 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | infinitive | | your mind | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Ethiopian | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** | past | I | hate | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hate=Patient | | 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | hate *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **hunt** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | without you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **insist** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **look** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | like a sun flower; against a tarred fence | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent against fence=Theme | | 8 | **tar** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **mind** | | your | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/102/) - ↑ back to [How the Leopard Got His Spots](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/)