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title: Strike first and then give tongue. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Strike first and then give tongue. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 120

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Strike first and then give tongue.

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** tongue

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg236:2:120
# text = Strike first and then give tongue.
1	Strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | infinitive |  | tongue |  |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |

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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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