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title: ‘I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-g… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River,’ said the Elephant’s Child. Who acts: I. 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 93

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‘I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River,’ said the Elephant’s Child.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** get, say · **To what, where:** new one, banks, Child · **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 (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:pg2781:6:93
# text = ‘I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River,’ said the Elephant’s Child.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
16	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	greasy	greasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Limpopo	Limpopo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | I | a new one |  | the banks of the great greasy Limpopo River |  | from the Crocodile | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from crocodile=Source |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Elephant's Child |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent child=Topic |

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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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