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title: Why, the whole dear, kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe is here, Taffy.’ — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, the whole dear, kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe is here, Taffy.’ Who acts: whole dear quiet Tribe. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 123

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Why, the whole dear, kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe is here, Taffy.’

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**Who acts:** whole dear quiet Tribe · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole dear quiet Tribe), 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:pg2781:9:123
# text = Why, the whole dear, kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe is here, Taffy.’
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the whole dear quiet Tribe |  |  |  |  | Taffy *vocative*; here *property* | 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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