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title: “I kill nothing,--I am too little,--but I drive goats toward such as… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I kill nothing,--I am too little,--but I drive goats toward such as can use them. Who acts: thanks. 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 38

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“I kill nothing,--I am too little,--but I drive goats toward such as can use them.

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**Who acts:** thanks · **What happens:** kill, be, drive, use · **To what, where:** nothing, goats

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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 (thanks), 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:pg236:7:38
# text = “I kill nothing,--I am too little,--but I drive goats toward such as can use them.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	drive	drive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** *in a quote* | present | all thanks *= thanks* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | all thanks *= thanks* |  |  |  |  | little *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive** *in a quote* | present | all thanks *= thanks* | goats |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme |
| 4 | **use** *in a quote* | can | all thanks *= thanks* *not said here* | goats *= goat* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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