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title: What news of Shere Khan?” — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: What news of Shere Khan?” 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 75

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What news of Shere Khan?”

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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: 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:pg236:8:75
# text = What news of Shere Khan?”
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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