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title: THIS, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far-Off Times. — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: THIS, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far-Off Times. Who acts: Best Beloved. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 1

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THIS, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far-Off Times.

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**Who acts:** Best Beloved · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** story

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Best Beloved), 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:pg2781:8:1
# text = THIS, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far-Off Times.
1	THIS	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	vocative	_	_
4	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Off	off	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Best Beloved | another story |  |  |  | of the High | tree rules |

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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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