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title: One beautiful night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jagua… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: One beautiful night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar found Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-Solid Tortoise sitting under the trunk of a fallen tree. Who acts: Painted Jaguar, Prickly Hedgehog. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos, with
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# Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 10

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One beautiful night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar found Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-Solid Tortoise sitting under the trunk of a fallen tree.

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**Who acts:** Painted Jaguar, Prickly Hedgehog · **What happens:** find, sit, fall · **To what, where:** Prickly Hedgehog, trunk

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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 (Painted Jaguar, Prickly Hedgehog), 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:pg2781:325`): 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:pg2781:8:10
# text = One beautiful night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar found Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-Solid Tortoise sitting under the trunk of a fallen tree.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	turbid	turbid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	Painted	Painted	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Stickly	Stickly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	Prickly	Prickly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	Slow	Slow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	Solid	Solid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	xcomp	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	amod	_	_
31	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Painted Jaguar | Prickly Hedgehog and Solid Tortoise |  |  | night |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | Prickly Hedgehog and Solid Tortoise *not said here* |  |  | the trunk of a fallen tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under trunk=Location |
| 3 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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