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title: “Not eat exactly; no. Darzee, if you have a grain of sense you will… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Not eat exactly; no. Darzee, if you have a grain of sense you will fly off to the stables and pretend that your wing is broken, and let Nagaina chase you away to this bush. Who acts: you, grain, Nagaina. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14, with its dependen
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 132

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“Not eat exactly; no. Darzee, if you have a grain of sense you will fly off to the stables and pretend that your wing is broken, and let Nagaina chase you away to this bush.

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**Who acts:** you, grain, Nagaina · **What happens:** not eat, have, fly off, pretend, break, let · **To what, where:** no. Darzee, wing, Nagaina, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, grain, Nagaina), 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:pg236:14:132
# text = “Not eat exactly; no. Darzee, if you have a grain of sense you will fly off to the stables and pretend that your wing is broken, and let Nagaina chase you away to this bush.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	pretend	pretend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | no. Darzee |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly off** *in a quote* | future | a grain of sense |  |  |  |  | to the stables *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stable=Result |
| 4 | **pretend** *in a quote* | present | a grain of sense *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **break** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | your wing |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | Nagaina |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **chase** *in a quote* | infinitive | Nagaina *not said here* | you |  |  |  | away *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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