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title: You’re right, Chuchundra; I should have talked to Chua.” — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You’re right, Chuchundra; I should have talked to Chua.” Who acts: You, I. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 53

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You’re right, Chuchundra; I should have talked to Chua.”

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** be, talk · **To what, where:** Chuchundra, Chua

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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, I), 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:pg236:14:53
# text = You’re right, Chuchundra; I should have talked to Chua.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’re	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Chuchundra	Chuchundra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Chua	Chua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | You | Chuchundra |  |  |  | right *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** | should · perfect | I |  | Chua |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to chua=Co-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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