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title: I AM the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in most wise tones, ‘Let us melt… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: I AM the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in most wise tones, ‘Let us melt into the landscape--just us two by our lones.’ Who acts: I, Most Wise Baviaan, us. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard Got His Spots, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 124

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I AM the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in most wise tones, ‘Let us melt into the landscape--just us two by our lones.’

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**Who acts:** I, Most Wise Baviaan, us · **What happens:** be, say, let, melt · **To what, where:** Most Wise Baviaan, most wise tones, us, landscape · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard Got His Spots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Most Wise Baviaan, us), 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:pg2781:5:124
# text = I AM the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in most wise tones, ‘Let us melt into the landscape--just us two by our lones.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	AM	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
5	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Baviaan	Baviaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
11	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	melt	melt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	appos	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lones	lone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | the Most Wise Baviaan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Most Wise Baviaan *not said here* |  |  | most wise tones |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **melt** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | the landscape  us |  | by our lones | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into landscape=Product |

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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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