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title: And tell the Deep-Sea Viceroys the story of our woe; Ere, empty as t… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And tell the Deep-Sea Viceroys the story of our woe; Ere, empty as the shark’s egg the tempest flings ashore, The Beaches of Lukannon shall know their sons no more! Who acts: you, tempest, Beaches. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its dependency tree
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 36

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And tell the Deep-Sea Viceroys the story of our woe; Ere, empty as the shark’s egg the tempest flings ashore, The Beaches of Lukannon shall know their sons no more!

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**Who acts:** you, tempest, Beaches · **What happens:** tell, fling, know · **To what, where:** story, Deep Sea Viceroys, egg, sons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tempest, Beaches), 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:pg236:13:36
# text = And tell the Deep-Sea Viceroys the story of our woe; Ere, empty as the shark’s egg the tempest flings ashore, The Beaches of Lukannon shall know their sons no more!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	Deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Viceroys	Viceroy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	flings	fling	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Lukannon	Lukannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	no	no	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the story of our woe | the Deep Sea Viceroys |  |  | Ere *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent viceroy=Recipient story=Topic |
| 2 | **fling** | present | the tempest | the shark's egg *not said here* |  |  |  | ashore *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | shall | the Beaches of Lukannon | beaches's sons |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus |

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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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