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title: “Worm--earth-worm, and yellow to boot.” — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Worm--earth-worm, and yellow to boot.” A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 186

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“Worm--earth-worm, and yellow to boot.”

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**What happens:** boot

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg236:5:186
# text = “Worm--earth-worm, and yellow to boot.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	boot	boot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boot** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «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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