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title: We haven’t a camelty tune of our own To help us trollop along, But e… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: We haven’t a camelty tune of our own To help us trollop along, But every neck is a hair trombone (_Rtt-ta-ta-ta! Who acts: We, us, neck, Rtt. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 185

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We haven’t a camelty tune of our own To help us trollop along, But every neck is a hair trombone (\_Rtt-ta-ta-ta!

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**Who acts:** We, us, neck, Rtt · **What happens:** have, help, trollop, be, ta · **To what, where:** camelty tune, us, hair trombone

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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 (We, us, neck, Rtt), 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:pg236:20:185
# text = We haven’t a camelty tune of our own To help us trollop along, But every neck is a hair trombone (_Rtt-ta-ta-ta!
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	camelty	camelty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	_
10	To	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	trollop	trollop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	along	along	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	trombone	trombone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Rtt	Rtt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	ta	ta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	ta	ta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	ta	ta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | We | a camelty tune of our own |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **trollop** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | every neck | a hair trombone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ta** |  | Rtt |  |  |  |  |  | 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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