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title: Unless I go to Rio These wonders to behold-- Roll down--roll down to… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Unless I go to Rio These wonders to behold-- Roll down--roll down to Rio-- Roll really down to Rio! Who acts: Unless. 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 166

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Unless I go to Rio These wonders to behold-- Roll down--roll down to Rio-- Roll really down to Rio!

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**Who acts:** Unless · **What happens:** go, roll down · **To what, where:** wonders, 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 (Unless), 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:pg2781:8:166
# text = Unless I go to Rio These wonders to behold-- Roll down--roll down to Rio-- Roll really down to Rio!
1	Unless	unless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Roll	roll	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	roll	roll	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	Roll	Roll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	really	really	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Unless | this wonders |  | Rio |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rio=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **roll down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roll down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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