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title: Wake, Little Brother; I bring news.” — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Wake, Little Brother; I bring news.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 11

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Wake, Little Brother; I bring news.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** Wake

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg236:8:11
# text = Wake, Little Brother; I bring news.”
1	Wake	wake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | I | Wake |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent news=Theme |

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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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