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title: Lead us again, O Man-cub, for we be sick of this lawlessness, and we… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Lead us again, O Man-cub, for we be sick of this lawlessness, and we would be the Free People once more.” Who acts: you, we. 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 12

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Lead us again, O Man-cub, for we be sick of this lawlessness, and we would be the Free People once more.”

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** lead, be · **To what, where:** us, Free People

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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 (you, we), 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:pg236:10:12
# text = Lead us again, O Man-cub, for we be sick of this lawlessness, and we would be the Free People once more.”
1	Lead	lead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	8	case	_	_
6	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	lawlessness	lawlessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	advmod	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  | again | of Man cub | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme of cub=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | we |  |  |  |  | of this lawlessness; sick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | would | we | the Free People |  |  |  |  | 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:** «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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