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title: Kindly lead me into the water once again and I’ll practice that side… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Kindly lead me into the water once again and I’ll practice that side-stroke which you say is so easy.’ Who acts: I, that, you. 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 101

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Kindly lead me into the water once again and I’ll practice that side-stroke which you say is so easy.’

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**Who acts:** I, that, you · **What happens:** lead, 'll, stroke, say, be · **To what, where:** me, water, practice, side stroke · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, that, 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:pg2781:8:101
# text = Kindly lead me into the water once again and I’ll practice that side-stroke which you say is so easy.’
1	Kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’ll	'll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | infinitive |  | me |  | the water | again | kindly *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme into water=Destination |
| 2 | **'ll** | present | I | practice and side stroke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stroke** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | side stroke |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | 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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