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title: “Save Akela from the death. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Save Akela from the death. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 119

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“Save Akela from the death.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** save · **To what, where:** Akela, death

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. 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:pg236:3:119
# text = “Save Akela from the death.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Akela	Akela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Akela |  | the death |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent akela=Theme from death=Source |

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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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