--- title: For I am busy then, As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, For they a… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: For I am busy then, As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, For they are hungry men: But different folk have different views: I know a person small-- She keeps ten million serving-men, Who get no rest at all! Who acts: I, families, different folk, folk. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipli --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/105/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [The Elephant’s Child](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/) / 105 # Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 105 For I am busy then, As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, For they are hungry men: But different folk have different views: I know a person small-- She keeps ten million serving-men, Who get no rest at all! **Who acts:** I, families, different folk, folk, million serving men · **What happens:** be, have, know, keep, get · **To what, where:** different views, person, million serving men, rest, all This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, families, different folk, folk), 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:pg2781:6:105 # text = For I am busy then, As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, For they are hungry men: But different folk have different views: I know a person small-- She keeps ten million serving-men, Who get no rest at all! 1 For for SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advcl _ _ 5 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 As as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 10 cc _ _ 8 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 fixed _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 10 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 For for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 But but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 27 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 views view NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 38 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 compound _ _ 39 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 40 serving serving NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 45 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 46 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 47 det _ _ 47 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | I | | | | then | busy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | families *= family* | | | | | for hungry men | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | different folk | different views | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient | | 4 | **know** | present | I | a person | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | | 5 | **keep** | present | folk | million serving men | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | | 6 | **get** | present | million serving men | no rest | | all | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent rest=Theme at all=Asset | 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 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/106/) - ↑ back to [The Elephant’s Child](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/6/)