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title: “They’re killing all the holluschickie on all the beaches!” — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “They’re killing all the holluschickie on all the beaches!” Who acts: seals. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 88

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“They’re killing all the holluschickie on all the beaches!”

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**Who acts:** seals · **What happens:** 're, kill · **To what, where:** holluschickie, beaches

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg236:11:88
# text = “They’re killing all the holluschickie on all the beaches!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’re	're	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **'re** *in a quote* | past | seals *= seal* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** *in a quote* | gerund | seals *= seal* *not said here* | all holluschickie |  | all beaches |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holluschickie=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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