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title: He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whim… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear. Who acts: Flower. 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 140

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He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear.

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**Who acts:** Flower · **What happens:** beat, whimper, whine · **To what, where:** Shere, head, tiger, agony

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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 (Flower), 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:pg236:3:140
# text = He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
15	whimpered	whimper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	whined	whine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **beat** | past | Flower | Shere |  | the head |  | with the branch | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shere=Patient with branch=Instrument |
| 2 | **whimper** | participle |  | the tiger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **whine** | participle |  |  |  | a agony of fear |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in agony=Location |

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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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