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title: Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cat… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world! Who acts: Sambhur, I, thou. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1, with its dependenc
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 125

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Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world!

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**Who acts:** Sambhur, I, thou · **What happens:** get, kill, eat, starve, go, burn · **To what, where:** starved cattle, beast, world

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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 (Sambhur, I, thou), 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:pg236:1:125
# text = Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world!
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
3	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sambhur	sambhur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
16	starved	starve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
22	goest	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	lamer	lamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
34	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nsubj	_	_
37	camest	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now | by the Sambhur; hence *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **kill** | past | the Sambhur |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **eat** | present | I | no starved cattle |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient |
| 4 | **starve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | to thy mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **burn** | past |  | beast of the jungle and lamer |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent beast=Theme |
| 7 | **come** | past | thou |  |  | the world | ever |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial\_Location |

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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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