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description: But also, and at the same time, in those High and Far-Off Times, there was a Painted Jaguar, and he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon too; and he ate everything that he could catch. Who acts: Jaguar, those. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos, wi
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# Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 6

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But also, and at the same time, in those High and Far-Off Times, there was a Painted Jaguar, and he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon too; and he ate everything that he could catch.

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**Who acts:** Jaguar, those · **What happens:** live, eat, catch · **To what, where:** banks, everything

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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 (Jaguar, those), 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:pg2781:8:6
# text = But also, and at the same time, in those High and Far-Off Times, there was a Painted Jaguar, and he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon too; and he ate everything that he could catch.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	39	nsubj	_	_
12	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Off	off	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Painted	Painted	PROPN	NNP	_	23	compound	_	_
23	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	turbid	turbid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
40	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	39	obj	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Jaguar |  |  | the banks of the turbid Amazon |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | past | those | everything |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
| 3 | **catch** | could | Jaguar |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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