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title: He sat on all their laps one after the other, because every well-bro… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He sat on all their laps one after the other, because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in; and Rikki-tikki’s mother (she used to live in the general’s house at Segowlee) had carefully told Rikki what to do if ever he came across 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 93

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He sat on all their laps one after the other, because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in; and Rikki-tikki’s mother (she used to live in the general’s house at Segowlee) had carefully told Rikki what to do if ever he came across white men.

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**Who acts:** Tikki, brought mongoose, mother · **What happens:** sit, bring up, hope, be, have, run about · **To what, where:** laps, house mongoose, rooms, mother, house, Rikki · **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, brought mongoose, mother), 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:pg236:13:93
# text = He sat on all their laps one after the other, because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in; and Rikki-tikki’s mother (she used to live in the general’s house at Segowlee) had carefully told Rikki what to do if ever he came across white men.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	laps	lap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	advcl	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	hopes	hope	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	_
34	about	about	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
38	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’s	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’s	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	Segowlee	Segowlee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	45	punct	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
59	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	iobj	_	_
60	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	62	obj	_	_
61	to	to	PART	TO	_	62	mark	_	_
62	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	xcomp	_	_
63	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	66	mark	_	_
64	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	66	advmod	_	_
65	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
66	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	advcl	_	_
67	across	across	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	_
68	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
69	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Tikki |  |  | shoulders's laps |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location |
| 2 | **bring up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hope** | present | every brought mongoose |  |  |  | day | always *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a house mongoose |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | every brought mongoose *not said here* | rooms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
| 6 | **run about** | to-infinitive | every brought mongoose *not said here* | rooms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **use** | past | mother | Rikki tikki's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **live** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  | the general's house at Segowlee |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | Rikki tikki's mother | Rikki |  |  | carefully *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Rikki tikki's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 11 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Tikki | white men |  |  | ever |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=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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