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title: Don’t you know that if you were on the High Veldt I could see you te… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Don’t you know that if you were on the High Veldt I could see you ten miles off? Who acts: you, I. 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 56

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Don’t you know that if you were on the High Veldt I could see you ten miles off?

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not do, know, be, see · **To what, where:** High Veldt, you · **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 (you, I), 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:pg2781:5:56
# text = Don’t you know that if you were on the High Veldt I could see you ten miles off?
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Veldt	Veldt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	off	off	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  | the High Veldt |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | could | I | you |  |  |  | off *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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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