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title: “And when I come it will be to lay out Shere Khan’s hide upon the Co… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “And when I come it will be to lay out Shere Khan’s hide upon the Council Rock. Who acts: Mowgli, it. 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 173

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“And when I come it will be to lay out Shere Khan’s hide upon the Council Rock.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli, it · **What happens:** come, lay out, be · **To what, where:** hide · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mowgli, it), 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:pg236:3:173
# text = “And when I come it will be to lay out Shere Khan’s hide upon the Council Rock.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	csubj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
15	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Rock	Rock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lay out** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | it | Shere's hide |  |  |  | upon the Council Rock | 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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