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title: Then feed us and break us and handle and groom, And give us good rid… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then feed us and break us and handle and groom, And give us good riders and plenty of room, And launch us in column of squadron and see The way of the war-horse to “Bonnie Dundee”! Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree a
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 180

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Then feed us and break us and handle and groom, And give us good riders and plenty of room, And launch us in column of squadron and see The way of the war-horse to “Bonnie Dundee”!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** feed, break, handle, groom, give, launch · **To what, where:** us, good riders, column, way

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg236:20:180
# text = Then feed us and break us and handle and groom, And give us good riders and plenty of room, And launch us in column of squadron and see The way of the war-horse to “Bonnie Dundee”!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	handle	handle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	groom	groom	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	launch	launch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	column	column	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	squadron	squadron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Bonnie	Bonnie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Dundee	Dundee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | us |  | then |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 2 | **break** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Patient |
| 3 | **handle** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **groom** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | good riders and plenty of room | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient rider=Theme |
| 6 | **launch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  | column of squadron |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent we=Theme in column=Destination |
| 7 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the way of the war horse to Bonnie Dundee |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |

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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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