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title: “Oh, Shere Khan, never was a blacker hunting than that frog-hunt of… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, Shere Khan, never was a blacker hunting than that frog-hunt of thine ten years ago!” 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 142

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“Oh, Shere Khan, never was a blacker hunting than that frog-hunt of thine ten years ago!”

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**What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** blacker hunting

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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:pg236:2:142
# text = “Oh, Shere Khan, never was a blacker hunting than that frog-hunt of thine ten years ago!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	blacker	black	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
14	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | a blacker hunting |  |  |  | than frog hunt of thine ten years | tree rules |

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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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