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title: Have a care, manling, that I do not mistake thee for a monkey some t… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Have a care, manling, that I do not mistake thee for a monkey some twilight when I have newly changed my coat.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 31

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Have a care, manling, that I do not mistake thee for a monkey some twilight when I have newly changed my coat.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** have, not mistake, change · **To what, where:** care, thee, coat

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg236:7:31
# text = Have a care, manling, that I do not mistake thee for a monkey some twilight when I have newly changed my coat.”
1	Have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	manling	manling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	mistake	mistake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | imperative | you *not said here* | a care and manling |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **mistake** | present · do-support | I | thee |  |  |  | for a monkey | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | present · perfect | I | my coat |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient |

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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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