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title: “When the house is emptied of people,” said Nagaina to her husband,… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “When the house is emptied of people,” said Nagaina to her husband, “he will have to go away, and then the garden will be our own again. Who acts: Nagaina, brick, garden. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 56

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“When the house is emptied of people,” said Nagaina to her husband, “he will have to go away, and then the garden will be our own again.

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**Who acts:** Nagaina, brick, garden · **What happens:** empty, say, have, go away, be · **To what, where:** house, husband · **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 (Nagaina, brick, garden), 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:pg236:14:56
# text = “When the house is emptied of people,” said Nagaina to her husband, “he will have to go away, and then the garden will be our own again.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	emptied	empty	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **empty** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the house |  |  |  | of people | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of people=Source |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Nagaina |  | Nagaina's husband |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | future | brick |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go away** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | brick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the garden |  |  |  | then; again | own *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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