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title: Go and wash Kala Nag and attend to his ears, and see that there are… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Go and wash Kala Nag and attend to his ears, and see that there are no thorns in his feet. Who acts: you, thorns. 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 62

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Go and wash Kala Nag and attend to his ears, and see that there are no thorns in his feet.

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**Who acts:** you, thorns · **What happens:** go, wash, attend, see, be · **To what, where:** Kala · **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, thorns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg236:1887`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:16:62
# text = Go and wash Kala Nag and attend to his ears, and see that there are no thorns in his feet.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	attend	attend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wash** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Kala |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kala=Patient |
| 3 | **attend** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Kala's ears | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to ear=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **does** | present | no thorns in Kala's feet |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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