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title: Nobody comes to Novastoshnah except on business, and the only people… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody comes to Novastoshnah except on business, and the only people who have regular business there are the seals. Who acts: Nobody, only people, seals. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 107

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Nobody comes to Novastoshnah except on business, and the only people who have regular business there are the seals.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, only people, seals · **What happens:** come, have, be · **To what, where:** only people, Novastoshnah, regular business

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, only people, seals), 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:pg236:10:107
# text = Nobody comes to Novastoshnah except on business, and the only people who have regular business there are the seals.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	except	except	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Nobody | the only people |  | Novastoshnah |  | except business | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to novastoshnah=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | present | the only people | regular business |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient |
| 3 | **does** | present | the seals |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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