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title: And he lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his ‘satiable… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And he lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his ‘satiable curtiosities. Who acts: Elephant. 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 4

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And he lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his ‘satiable curtiosities.

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**Who acts:** Elephant · **What happens:** live, fill · **To what, where:** Africa

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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 (Elephant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2781:193`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:6:4
# text = And he lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his ‘satiable curtiosities.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	satiable	satiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	curtiosities	curtiosity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Elephant |  |  | Africa |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location |
| 2 | **fill** | past | Elephant | all Africa |  |  |  | with Elephant's satiable curtiosities | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent africa=Patient with curtiosity=Instrument |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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