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title: I’VE never sailed the Amazon, I’ve never reached Brazil; But the Don… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: I’VE never sailed the Amazon, I’ve never reached Brazil; But the Don and Magdelana, They can go there when they will! Who acts: I, Don. 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 162

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I’VE never sailed the Amazon, I’ve never reached Brazil; But the Don and Magdelana, They can go there when they will!

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**Who acts:** I, Don · **What happens:** have, not sail, not reach, go · **To what, where:** Amazon, Brazil

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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, Don), 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:pg2781:8:162
# text = I’VE never sailed the Amazon, I’ve never reached Brazil; But the Don and Magdelana, They can go there when they will!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’VE	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’ve	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
12	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
14	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Magdelana	Magdelana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **sail** | past | I *not said here* | the Amazon |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amazon=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **reach** | past | I *not said here* | Brazil |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent brazil=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | can | the Don and Magdelana |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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