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title: So Painted Jaguar did as he was told, especially about leaving them… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So Painted Jaguar did as he was told, especially about leaving them alone; but the curious thing is that from that day to this, O Best Beloved, no one on the banks of the turbid Amazon has ever called Stickly-Prickly and Slow-Solid anything except Armadillo. Who acts: Painted, curious thing, Best Be
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# Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 158

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So Painted Jaguar did as he was told, especially about leaving them alone; but the curious thing is that from that day to this, O Best Beloved, no one on the banks of the turbid Amazon has ever called Stickly-Prickly and Slow-Solid anything except Armadillo.

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**Who acts:** Painted, curious thing, Best Beloved · **What happens:** do, tell, leave, be, call · **To what, where:** Painted, shares, one · **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 (Painted, curious thing, 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:pg2781:8:158
# text = So Painted Jaguar did as he was told, especially about leaving them alone; but the curious thing is that from that day to this, O Best Beloved, no one on the banks of the turbid Amazon has ever called Stickly-Prickly and Slow-Solid anything except Armadillo.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Painted	Painted	PROPN	NNP	_	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	30	vocative	_	_
29	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	turbid	turbid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
41	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
43	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
44	Stickly	Stickly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	Slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	Solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	43	obj	_	_
52	except	except	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	Armadillo	Armadillo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Painted |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | Painted |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund |  | shares *= share* |  |  |  | alone, especially *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the curious thing |  |  |  | from that day | to this | tree rules |
| 5 | **call** | present · perfect · passive | Best Beloved *not said here* | no one on the banks of the turbid Amazon |  |  | ever |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme anything=Result |

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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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