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title: Then I shall sit on thy neck, O Kala Nag, with a silver ankus, and m… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then I shall sit on thy neck, O Kala Nag, with a silver ankus, and men will run before us with golden sticks, crying, `Room for the King’s elephant!’ Who acts: I, men. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 5

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Then I shall sit on thy neck, O Kala Nag, with a silver ankus, and men will run before us with golden sticks, crying, \`Room for the King’s elephant!’

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**Who acts:** I, men · **What happens:** sit, run, cry · **To what, where:** O Kala, neck

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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 (I, men), 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:pg236:16:5
# text = Then I shall sit on thy neck, O Kala Nag, with a silver ankus, and men will run before us with golden sticks, crying, `Room for the King’s elephant!’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ankus	ankus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	`	`	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | shall | I | O Kala |  | thy neck | then | with a silver ankus; Room for the King's elephant *obl* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on neck=Location |
| 2 | **run** | future | men |  |  |  | before us | with golden sticks | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before we=Trajectory |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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