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title: ‘Even Painted Jaguar can’t forget those directions. — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Even Painted Jaguar can’t forget those directions. Who acts: Painted Jaguar. 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 81

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‘Even Painted Jaguar can’t forget those directions.

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**Who acts:** Painted Jaguar · **What happens:** not forget · **To what, where:** directions

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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 (Painted Jaguar), 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:pg2781:8:81
# text = ‘Even Painted Jaguar can’t forget those directions.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	Painted	Painted	PROPN	NNP	_	4	compound	_	_
4	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **forget** | can | Painted Jaguar | that directions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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