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title: He may even require thee to be an elephant catcher, to sleep anywher… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He may even require thee to be an elephant catcher, to sleep anywhere in these fever-filled jungles, and at last to be trampled to death in the Keddah. Who acts: Petersen. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 51

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He may even require thee to be an elephant catcher, to sleep anywhere in these fever-filled jungles, and at last to be trampled to death in the Keddah.

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**Who acts:** Petersen · **What happens:** require, be, sleep, fill, trample · **To what, where:** thee, elephant catcher, filled jungles, Keddah

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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 (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:pg236:16:51
# text = He may even require thee to be an elephant catcher, to sleep anywhere in these fever-filled jungles, and at last to be trampled to death in the Keddah.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	catcher	catcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
17	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	jungles	jungle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	trampled	trample	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | may | Petersen | thee |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Precondition |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Petersen *not said here* | a elephant catcher |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Petersen *not said here* |  |  | this filled jungles |  | anywhere *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in jungle=Location |
| 4 | **fill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **trample** | to-infinitive · passive | Petersen *not said here* |  |  | the Keddah |  | to death | tree rules |

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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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