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title: She sends ‘em abroad on her own affairs, From the second she opens h… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: She sends ‘em abroad on her own affairs, From the second she opens her eyes-- One million Hows, two million Wheres, And seven million Whys! Who acts: folk. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 106

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She sends ‘em abroad on her own affairs, From the second she opens her eyes-- One million Hows, two million Wheres, And seven million Whys!

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**Who acts:** folk · **What happens:** send, open · **To what, where:** em, own affairs, eyes

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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 (folk), 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:pg2781:6:106
# text = She sends ‘em abroad on her own affairs, From the second she opens her eyes-- One million Hows, two million Wheres, And seven million Whys!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	From	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	obl	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
20	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	Hows	how	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	compound	_	_
24	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	Wheres	where	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	Whys	why	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | folk | em *= they* |  | folk's own affairs |  | million Whys *obl*; abroad *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **open** | present | folk | folk's eyes and million Hows and million Wheres |  |  |  | from the second | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |

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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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