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title: Sing to your fledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head! — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sing to your fledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head! Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 105

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Sing to your fledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** sing, lift up · **To what, where:** Mother, fledglings, head

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg236:15:105
# text = Sing to your fledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head!
1	Sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	fledglings	fledgling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	lift	lift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | Mother | your fledglings |  | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to fledgling=Recipient |
| 2 | **lift up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your head |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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