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title: “Free People, and ye too, jackals of Shere Khan, for twelve seasons… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Free People, and ye too, jackals of Shere Khan, for twelve seasons I have led ye to and from the kill, and in all that time not one has been trapped or maimed. Who acts: ye, Dead Wolf. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 57

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“Free People, and ye too, jackals of Shere Khan, for twelve seasons I have led ye to and from the kill, and in all that time not one has been trapped or maimed.

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**Who acts:** ye, Dead Wolf · **What happens:** jackal, lead, not trap, maim · **To what, where:** ye, one

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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 (ye, Dead Wolf), 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:pg236:3:57
# text = “Free People, and ye too, jackals of Shere Khan, for twelve seasons I have led ye to and from the kill, and in all that time not one has been trapped or maimed.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	jackals	jackal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
20	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	maimed	maim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jackal** *in a quote* |  | ye |  |  |  |  | of Shere | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Dead Wolf *= wolf* | ye |  |  | season |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **trap** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **maim** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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