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title: He was receiving a visit from the Amir of Afghanistan--a wild king o… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was receiving a visit from the Amir of Afghanistan--a wild king of a very wild country. Who acts: camp. 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 86

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He was receiving a visit from the Amir of Afghanistan--a wild king of a very wild country.

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**Who acts:** camp · **What happens:** receive · **To what, where:** visit, Amir

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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 (camp), 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:pg236:18:86
# text = He was receiving a visit from the Amir of Afghanistan--a wild king of a very wild country.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Amir	Amir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past · progressive | camp | a visit |  | the Amir of Afghanistan |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent visit=Theme from amir=Source |

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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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