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title: The Wey, that Taffy called Wagai, Was more than six times bigger the… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The Wey, that Taffy called Wagai, Was more than six times bigger then; And all the Tribe of Tegumai They cut a noble figure then! Who acts: Taffy, 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 184

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The Wey, that Taffy called Wagai, Was more than six times bigger then; And all the Tribe of Tegumai They cut a noble figure then!

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**Who acts:** Taffy, Tribe · **What happens:** call, cut · **To what, where:** Wey, noble figure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Taffy, 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:pg2781:9:184
# text = The Wey, that Taffy called Wagai, Was more than six times bigger then; And all the Tribe of Tegumai They cut a noble figure then!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Wey	Wey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	Wagai	Wagai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	Was	Was	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	12	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Taffy | the Wey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wey=Recipient |
| 2 | **cut** | past | all Tribe of Tegumai | a noble figure |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Product |

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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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