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title: “Kala Nag, my lord, let us keep by Pudmini and go to Petersen Sahib’… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Kala Nag, my lord, let us keep by Pudmini and go to Petersen Sahib’s camp, or I shall drop from thy neck.” Who acts: Kala, us, Little Toomai. 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 8

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“Kala Nag, my lord, let us keep by Pudmini and go to Petersen Sahib’s camp, or I shall drop from thy neck.”

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**Who acts:** Kala, us, Little Toomai · **What happens:** let, keep, go, drop · **To what, where:** us, camp, neck

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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 (Kala, us, Little Toomai), 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:pg236:18:8
# text = “Kala Nag, my lord, let us keep by Pudmini and go to Petersen Sahib’s camp, or I shall drop from thy neck.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Pudmini	Pudmini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
19	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Kala | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Pudmini | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by pudmini=Location |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | Petersen's camp |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **drop** *in a quote* | shall | Little Toomai *= toomai* |  |  | thy neck |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from neck=Trajectory |

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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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