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title: And I’d like to roll to Rio Some day before I’m old! — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And I’d like to roll to Rio Some day before I’m old! Who acts: I. 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 164

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And I’d like to roll to Rio Some day before I’m old!

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, like, roll, be · **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 (I), 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:pg2781:8:164
# text = And I’d like to roll to Rio Some day before I’m old!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **like** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **roll** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | Rio |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to rio=Result |
| 4 | **be** | present | I |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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