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title: He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs, put his nose into the in… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs, put his nose into the ink on a writing table, and burned it on the end of the big man’s cigar, for he climbed up in the big man’s lap to see how writing was done. Who acts: Tikki, writing. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 82

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He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs, put his nose into the ink on a writing table, and burned it on the end of the big man’s cigar, for he climbed up in the big man’s lap to see how writing was done.

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**Who acts:** Tikki, writing · **What happens:** drown, put, burn, climb up, see, be · **To what, where:** Tikki, bath tubs, nose, ink, end, lap · **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 (Tikki, writing), 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:pg236:13:82
# text = He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs, put his nose into the ink on a writing table, and burned it on the end of the big man’s cigar, for he climbed up in the big man’s lap to see how writing was done.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	drowned	drown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tubs	tub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	cigar	cigar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’s	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
47	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
48	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | past | Tikki | Tikki |  | the bath tubs |  | nearly *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | Tikki *not said here* | Tikki's nose |  | the ink |  | on a writing table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme on table=Destination |
| 3 | **burn** | past | Tikki *not said here* | nose |  |  | on the end of the big man's cigar |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **climb up** | past | Tikki |  |  | the big man's lap |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lap=Trajectory |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | Tikki *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past | writing |  |  |  |  | done *property* | 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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