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title: I am two Mowglis, but the hide of Shere Khan is under my feet. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I am two Mowglis, but the hide of Shere Khan is under my feet. Who acts: I, hide. 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 93

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I am two Mowglis, but the hide of Shere Khan is under my feet.

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**Who acts:** I, hide · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** two Mowglis, feet

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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 (I, hide), 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:pg236:10:93
# text = I am two Mowglis, but the hide of Shere Khan is under my feet.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	Mowglis	Mowglis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | two Mowglis but my feet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the hide of Shere |  |  | my feet |  |  | 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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