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title: ‘If you say another word about what my mother said--’ the Jaguar ans… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If you say another word about what my mother said--’ the Jaguar answered, but he had not finished the sentence before Slow-and-Solid quietly dived into the turbid Amazon, swam under water for a long way, and came out on the bank where Stickly-Prickly was waiting for him. Who acts: you, mother, Jagu
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# Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 58

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‘If you say another word about what my mother said--’ the Jaguar answered, but he had not finished the sentence before Slow-and-Solid quietly dived into the turbid Amazon, swam under water for a long way, and came out on the bank where Stickly-Prickly was waiting for him.

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**Who acts:** you, mother, Jaguar, Solid, Stickly · **What happens:** say, answer, not finish, dive, swim, come out · **To what, where:** word, sentence, turbid Amazon, water, bank · **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 (you, mother, Jaguar, Solid), 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:pg2781:8:58
# text = ‘If you say another word about what my mother said--’ the Jaguar answered, but he had not finished the sentence before Slow-and-Solid quietly dived into the turbid Amazon, swam under water for a long way, and came out on the bank where Stickly-Prickly was waiting for him.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nmod	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
26	Slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Solid	Solid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	turbid	turbid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
39	under	under	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
48	out	out	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
52	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	57	advmod	_	_
53	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	conj	_	_
56	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	acl:relcl	_	_
58	for	for	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | another word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | my mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Jaguar |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **finish** | past · perfect | Jaguar | the sentence |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector sentence=Eventuality |
| 5 | **dive** | past | Solid |  |  | the turbid Amazon |  | quietly *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into amazon=Location |
| 6 | **swim** | past | Solid *not said here* |  |  | water |  | for a long way | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Trajectory |
| 7 | **come out** | past | Solid *not said here* |  |  | the bank |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **wait** | past · progressive | Stickly |  |  |  |  | for Solid | 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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