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title: Obey the man next to you who gives the order, or you’ll stop all the… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Obey the man next to you who gives the order, or you’ll stop all the battery, besides getting a thrashing.” Who acts: you. 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 87

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Obey the man next to you who gives the order, or you’ll stop all the battery, besides getting a thrashing.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** obey, give, stop, beside, get · **To what, where:** man, you, order, battery, thrashing

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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:pg236:20:87
# text = Obey the man next to you who gives the order, or you’ll stop all the battery, besides getting a thrashing.”
1	Obey	obey	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	next	next	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	thrashing	thrashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | imperative | you *not said here* | the man | you |  |  | next *property* | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present |  | the order |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | future | you | all battery |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector battery=Eventuality |
| 4 | **beside** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | gerund |  | a thrashing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thrashing=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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