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title: Stir a whisker, Lungri, and I ram the Red Flower down thy gullet!” — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Stir a whisker, Lungri, and I ram the Red Flower down thy gullet!” Who acts: you, I. 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 139

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Stir a whisker, Lungri, and I ram the Red Flower down thy gullet!”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** stir, ram down · **To what, where:** whisker, Red Flower

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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, I), 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:pg236:3:139
# text = Stir a whisker, Lungri, and I ram the Red Flower down thy gullet!”
1	Stir	stir	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	whisker	whisker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Lungri	Lungri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ram	ram	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
12	Flower	Flower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	gullet	gullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stir** | imperative | you *not said here* | a whisker |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus whisker=Experiencer |
| 2 | **ram down** | present | I | the Red Flower |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme gullet=Destination |

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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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