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title: Painted Jaguar was sitting on the banks of the turbid Amazon sucking… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Painted Jaguar was sitting on the banks of the turbid Amazon sucking prickles out of his Paws and saying to himself-- 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 87

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Painted Jaguar was sitting on the banks of the turbid Amazon sucking prickles out of his Paws and saying to himself--

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**Who acts:** Painted Jaguar · **What happens:** paint, sit, suck, say · **To what, where:** banks, prickles, Paws, Jaguar · **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 (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:pg2781:8:87
# text = Painted Jaguar was sitting on the banks of the turbid Amazon sucking prickles out of his Paws and saying to himself--
1	Painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	turbid	turbid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Amazon	amazon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	prickles	prickle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	Paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | Painted Jaguar |  |  | the banks of the turbid Amazon |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
| 3 | **suck** | gerund | Painted Jaguar *not said here* | prickles |  | Jaguar's Paws |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent prickle=Theme out paw=Source |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Painted Jaguar *not said here* |  | Jaguar |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |

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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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