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title: Drink deep, Shere Khan, for when wilt thou drink again? — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Drink deep, Shere Khan, for when wilt thou drink again? Who acts: you, thou. 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 31

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Drink deep, Shere Khan, for when wilt thou drink again?

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** drink · **To what, where:** Shere

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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, 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:pg236:10:31
# text = Drink deep, Shere Khan, for when wilt thou drink again?
1	Drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* | Shere |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shere=Patient |
| 2 | **drink** | future | thou |  |  |  | again |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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