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title: I am sleepy, Bagheera, and Shere Khan is all long tail and loud talk… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I am sleepy, Bagheera, and Shere Khan is all long tail and loud talk--like Mao, the Peacock.” Who acts: I, Shere. 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 81

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I am sleepy, Bagheera, and Shere Khan is all long tail and loud talk--like Mao, the Peacock.”

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**Who acts:** I, Shere · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** long tail

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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: who acts (I, Shere), 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:pg236:2:81
# text = I am sleepy, Bagheera, and Shere Khan is all long tail and loud talk--like Mao, the Peacock.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Mao	Mao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | Bagheera *vocative*; sleepy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Shere | long tail and loud talk |  |  |  | all *property* | 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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