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title: Let’s--oh, anything, daddy, so long as it’s you and me, And going tr… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Let’s--oh, anything, daddy, so long as it’s you and me, And going truly exploring, and not being in till tea! Who acts: you. 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 130

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Let’s--oh, anything, daddy, so long as it’s you and me, And going truly exploring, and not being in till tea!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** let in, go, explore, not be · **To what, where:** ’s

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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 (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:pg2781:5:130
# text = Let’s--oh, anything, daddy, so long as it’s you and me, And going truly exploring, and not being in till tea!
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
21	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	exploring	explore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADV	RB	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
28	till	till	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let in** | imperative | you *not said here* | ’s |  |  |  | long *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **explore** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  | till tea | in *property* | tree rules |

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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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