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title: Listen, too, you my lords in the lines there, for I, Machua Appa, am… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Listen, too, you my lords in the lines there, for I, Machua Appa, am speaking! Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 38

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Listen, too, you my lords in the lines there, for I, Machua Appa, am speaking!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** listen, lord, speak · **To what, where:** lines · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg236:18:38
# text = Listen, too, you my lords in the lines there, for I, Machua Appa, am speaking!
1	Listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Machua	Machua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Appa	Appa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | there |  | for Machua Appa | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for appa=Theme |
| 2 | **lord** |  | you |  |  | the lines |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · progressive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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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