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title: Shere Khan has gone away to hunt far off till his coat grows again,… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Shere Khan has gone away to hunt far off till his coat grows again, for he is badly singed. Who acts: Shere, coat. 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 15

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Shere Khan has gone away to hunt far off till his coat grows again, for he is badly singed.

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**Who acts:** Shere, coat · **What happens:** go away, hunt, grow, singe · **To what, where:** Shere

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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 (Shere, coat), 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:pg236:8:15
# text = Shere Khan has gone away to hunt far off till his coat grows again, for he is badly singed.
1	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	off	off	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	singed	singe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | present · perfect | Shere |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Shere *not said here* |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | present | Shere's coat |  |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **singe** | present · passive |  | Shere |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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