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title: Aihai! my lords in the chains,”--he whirled up the line of pickets--… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Aihai! my lords in the chains,”--he whirled up the line of pickets--“here is the little one that has seen your dances in your hidden places,--the sight that never man saw! Who acts: lord, chains, little one, man. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18, with its 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 45

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Aihai! my lords in the chains,”--he whirled up the line of pickets--“here is the little one that has seen your dances in your hidden places,--the sight that never man saw!

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**Who acts:** lord, chains, little one, man, your · **What happens:** whirl up, be, see, dance · **To what, where:** line, little one, dances, hidden places, sight · **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 (lord, chains, little one, man), 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:pg236:18:45
# text = Aihai! my lords in the chains,”--he whirled up the line of pickets--“here is the little one that has seen your dances in your hidden places,--the sight that never man saw!
1	Aihai	Aihai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	whirled	whirl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pickets	picket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	conj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obj	_	_
39	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whirl up** *in a quote* | past | lord | the line of pickets |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent line=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the chains | the little one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | present · perfect | the little one | your dances |  | your hidden places |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dance=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past | man | the sight |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 5 | **dance** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=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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