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title: Even where he was, Shere Khan’s shoulders and forepaws were cramped… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Even where he was, Shere Khan’s shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man’s would be if he tried to fight in a barrel. Who acts: Father, shoulders. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 111

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Even where he was, Shere Khan’s shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man’s would be if he tried to fight in a barrel.

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**Who acts:** Father, shoulders · **What happens:** be, fight, want · **To what, where:** barrel, room

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, shoulders), 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:pg236:1:111
# text = Even where he was, Shere Khan’s shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man’s would be if he tried to fight in a barrel.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
9	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	forepaws	forepaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	cramped	cramped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	dep	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Father |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | would · past | Shere's shoulders and forepaws |  |  |  |  | for want of room; cramped *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | Father |  |  |  |  | try *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fight** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Father *not said here* |  |  | a barrel |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **want** |  |  | room |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (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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