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title: S’posing you could trot From Adelaide to the Pacific, For an afterno… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: S’posing you could trot From Adelaide to the Pacific, For an afternoon’s run Half what these gentlemen did You would feel rather hot, But your legs would develop terrific-- Yes, my importunate son, You’d be a Marvellous Kid! Who acts: S’posing, Half, legs, You. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rud
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# Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 68

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S’posing you could trot From Adelaide to the Pacific, For an afternoon’s run Half what these gentlemen did You would feel rather hot, But your legs would develop terrific-- Yes, my importunate son, You’d be a Marvellous Kid!

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**Who acts:** S’posing, Half, legs, You, afternoon · **What happens:** s'pos, trot, feel, develop, be, run · **To what, where:** you, Adelaide, run, Marvellous Kid

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (S’posing, Half, legs, You), 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:pg2781:7:68
# text = S’posing you could trot From Adelaide to the Pacific, For an afternoon’s run Half what these gentlemen did You would feel rather hot, But your legs would develop terrific-- Yes, my importunate son, You’d be a Marvellous Kid!
1	S’posing	s'pos	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	trot	trot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	From	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Adelaide	Adelaide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	For	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	Half	Half	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
24	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	develop	develop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
32	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	38	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	importunate	importunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’d	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	cop	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	Marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	Kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **s'pos** | gerund |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trot** | could | S’posing |  |  | Adelaide |  | to the Pacific *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to pacific=Result |
| 3 | **feel** | would · past · do-support | Half | a afternoon's run |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 4 | **develop** | would | your legs |  |  |  |  | terrific *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | would | You | a Marvellous Kid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **run** |  | a afternoon |  |  |  |  |  | nom run «act transitive»: poss=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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