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title: “Remember, though, that Keddahs are not good for children to play in… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Remember, though, that Keddahs are not good for children to play in,” Petersen Sahib went on. Who acts: you, Keddahs, children, Petersen. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 101

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“Remember, though, that Keddahs are not good for children to play in,” Petersen Sahib went on.

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**Who acts:** you, Keddahs, children, Petersen · **What happens:** remember, not be, play in, go on · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Keddahs, children, Petersen), 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:pg236:16:101
# text = “Remember, though, that Keddahs are not good for children to play in,” Petersen Sahib went on.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	though	though	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	Keddahs	keddah	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
18	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
21	on	on	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | though *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Keddahs |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **play in** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | children |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go on** | past | Petersen |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «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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