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title: Tongue--give tongue to it! — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Tongue--give tongue to it! Who acts: Tongue. 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 186

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Tongue--give tongue to it!

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**Who acts:** Tongue · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** tongue, Jungle

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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 (Tongue), 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:pg236:3:186
# text = Tongue--give tongue to it!
1	Tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | infinitive | Tongue | tongue | Jungle |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme to it=Recipient |

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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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