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title: He made all-- Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine, And mother’s… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He made all-- Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine, And mother’s heart for sleepy head, O little son of mine! Who acts: Mahadeo. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 14

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He made all-- Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine, And mother’s heart for sleepy head, O little son of mine!

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**Who acts:** Mahadeo · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** Thorn

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mahadeo), 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:pg236:17:14
# text = He made all-- Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine, And mother’s heart for sleepy head, O little son of mine!
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fodder	fodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	25	case	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Mahadeo | Thorn for the camel and fodder for the kine |  |  |  | of little son of mine; mother's heart for sleepy head *obl*; all *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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