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title: “I will go, but there is no need that we should hunt for Rikki-tikki… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will go, but there is no need that we should hunt for Rikki-tikki afterward. Who acts: Nag, need. 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 64

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“I will go, but there is no need that we should hunt for Rikki-tikki afterward.

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**Who acts:** Nag, need · **What happens:** go, be, hunt

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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 (Nag, need), 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:pg236:14:64
# text = “I will go, but there is no need that we should hunt for Rikki-tikki afterward.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | future | Nag |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no need |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hunt** *in a quote* | should | no need |  |  |  |  | for Rikki tikki; afterward *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for tikki=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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