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title: THAT HE SANG AT THE COUNCIL ROCK WHEN HE DANCED ON SHERE KHAN’S HIDE — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: THAT HE SANG AT THE COUNCIL ROCK WHEN HE DANCED ON SHERE KHAN’S HIDE Who acts: Mowgli. 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 25

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THAT HE SANG AT THE COUNCIL ROCK WHEN HE DANCED ON SHERE KHAN’S HIDE

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**Who acts:** Mowgli · **What happens:** sing, dance · **To what, where:** COUNCIL ROCK, HIDE

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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 (Mowgli), 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:pg236:10:25
# text = THAT HE SANG AT THE COUNCIL ROCK WHEN HE DANCED ON SHERE KHAN’S HIDE
1	THAT	that	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	HE	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	SANG	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	AT	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	COUNCIL	COUNCIL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ROCK	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	WHEN	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	HE	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	DANCED	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	ON	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	SHERE	SHERE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	KHAN	KHAN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’S	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
15	HIDE	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Mowgli |  |  | the COUNCIL ROCK |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rock=Location |
| 2 | **dance** | past | Mowgli |  |  | SHERE's HIDE |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hide=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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