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title: Give him the Thanks of the Birds, Bowing with tail feathers spread! — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Give him the Thanks of the Birds, Bowing with tail feathers spread! Who acts: you, tail feathers. 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 111

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Give him the Thanks of the Birds, Bowing with tail feathers spread!

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**Who acts:** you, tail feathers · **What happens:** give, bow, spread · **To what, where:** Thanks, tikki

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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, tail feathers), 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:pg236:15:111
# text = Give him the Thanks of the Birds, Bowing with tail feathers spread!
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Bowing	bow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	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 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | the Thanks of the Birds | tikki |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thanks=Theme |
| 2 | **bow** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spread** | present | tail feathers |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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