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title: Yes, weekly from Southampton, Great steamers, white and gold, Go rol… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, weekly from Southampton, Great steamers, white and gold, Go rolling down to Rio (Roll down--roll down to Rio!) Who acts: Southampton. 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 163

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Yes, weekly from Southampton, Great steamers, white and gold, Go rolling down to Rio (Roll down--roll down to Rio!)

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**Who acts:** Southampton · **What happens:** go, roll down · **To what, where:** Rio

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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 (Southampton), 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:pg2781:8:163
# text = Yes, weekly from Southampton, Great steamers, white and gold, Go rolling down to Rio (Roll down--roll down to Rio!)
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	weekly	weekly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Southampton	Southampton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	steamers	steamer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	Go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Roll	roll	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	roll	roll	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | Southampton and Great steamers |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **roll down** | gerund | Southampton and Great steamers *not said here* |  | Rio |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to rio=Result |
| 3 | **roll down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **roll down** | infinitive |  |  | Rio |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to rio=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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