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title: That’s the spear I want you to fetch; so I’ll draw a picture of me m… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: That’s the spear I want you to fetch; so I’ll draw a picture of me myself ‘splaining to you. Who acts: I, you. 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 64

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That’s the spear I want you to fetch; so I’ll draw a picture of me myself ‘splaining to you.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** want, fetch, draw, splain · **To what, where:** you, picture

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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 (I, you), 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:pg2781:9:64
# text = That’s the spear I want you to fetch; so I’ll draw a picture of me myself ‘splaining to you.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	splaining	splain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw** | future | I | a picture of me |  |  |  | myself *obl:unmarked* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |
| 4 | **splain** | gerund | I *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | 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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