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title: Give me brick elephant lines, one stall to each elephant, and big st… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Give me brick elephant lines, one stall to each elephant, and big stumps to tie them to safely, and flat, broad roads to exercise upon, instead of this come-and-go camping. Who acts: you, flat broad roads, come. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16, with its d
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 11

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Give me brick elephant lines, one stall to each elephant, and big stumps to tie them to safely, and flat, broad roads to exercise upon, instead of this come-and-go camping.

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**Who acts:** you, flat broad roads, come · **What happens:** give, tie, exercise, go, camp · **To what, where:** brick elephant lines, me, lines

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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, flat broad roads, come), 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:pg236:16:11
# text = Give me brick elephant lines, one stall to each elephant, and big stumps to tie them to safely, and flat, broad roads to exercise upon, instead of this come-and-go camping.
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stumps	stump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	exercise	exercise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	38	mark	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	come	come	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
39	camping	camp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## 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* | brick elephant lines  one stall to each elephant | me |  |  | big stumps *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient line=Theme |
| 2 | **tie** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | lines *= line* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to safely=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **exercise** | to-infinitive | flat broad roads |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | this come |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **camp** | gerund | this come *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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