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description: “Now as you are a new listener and can carry our words back to the Jungle-People so that they may notice us in future, we will tell you all about our most excellent selves.” Who acts: you, People, we, our. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependen
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 35

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“Now as you are a new listener and can carry our words back to the Jungle-People so that they may notice us in future, we will tell you all about our most excellent selves.”

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**Who acts:** you, People, we, our · **What happens:** be, carry back, notice, tell, word · **To what, where:** new listener, words, Jungle People, us, future, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, People, we, our), 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:pg236:6:35
# text = “Now as you are a new listener and can carry our words back to the Jungle-People so that they may notice us in future, we will tell you all about our most excellent selves.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	listener	listener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nmod:unmarked	_	_
34	about	about	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	37	advmod	_	_
37	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	selves	self	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | a new listener |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry back** *in a quote* | can |  | our words | the Jungle People |  | now |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to people=Destination |
| 3 | **notice** *in a quote* | may | People | us |  | future |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | we |  | you |  |  | about our excellent selves | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about self=Topic |
| 5 | **word** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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