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title: _) This shall end when one is dead; (_At thy pleasure, Nag. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: _) This shall end when one is dead; (_At thy pleasure, Nag. Who acts: _, one, thy. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 42

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\_) This shall end when one is dead; (\_At thy pleasure, Nag.

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**Who acts:** \_, one, thy · **What happens:** end, be, please

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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 (\_, one, thy), 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:pg236:13:42
# text = _) This shall end when one is dead; (_At thy pleasure, Nag.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
3	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	At	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | shall | \_ |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | one |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **please** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=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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