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title: He went from Graham’s Town to Kimberley, and from Kimberley to Khama… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: He went from Graham’s Town to Kimberley, and from Kimberley to Khama’s Country, and from Khama’s Country he went east by north, eating melons all the time, till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, precisely as Kolokolo Bird had 
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# Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 21

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He went from Graham’s Town to Kimberley, and from Kimberley to Khama’s Country, and from Khama’s Country he went east by north, eating melons all the time, till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, precisely as Kolokolo Bird had said.

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**Who acts:** Crocodile, Kolokolo · **What happens:** go, eat, come, say · **To what, where:** Kimberley, Town, Country, melons, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Crocodile, Kolokolo), 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:pg2781:6:21
# text = He went from Graham’s Town to Kimberley, and from Kimberley to Khama’s Country, and from Khama’s Country he went east by north, eating melons all the time, till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, precisely as Kolokolo Bird had said.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Graham	Graham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Kimberley	Kimberley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Kimberley	Kimberley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Khama	Khama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Khama	Khama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	east	east	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	north	north	ADV	RB	_	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
30	melons	melon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	obl	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
46	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	greasy	greasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	Limpopo	Limpopo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	all	all	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
56	about	about	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
62	precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	67	advmod	_	_
63	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	67	mark	_	_
64	Kolokolo	Kolokolo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	67	nsubj	_	_
65	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	flat	_	_
66	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	67	aux	_	_
67	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Crocodile |  | Kimberley | Graham's Town |  | from Kimberley to Khama's Country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from town=Initial\_Location to kimberley=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past | Crocodile |  |  | Khama's Country |  | east *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from country=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | Crocodile *not said here* | melons |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past | Crocodile |  |  | last |  | to the banks of the great greasy Limpopo River | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Kolokolo |  |  |  |  | precisely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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