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title: Get hence quickly or the priest will turn thee into a wolf again. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Get hence quickly or the priest will turn thee into a wolf again. Who acts: you, priest. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 130

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Get hence quickly or the priest will turn thee into a wolf again.

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**Who acts:** you, priest · **What happens:** get, turn · **To what, where:** thee, wolf

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, priest), 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:pg236:9:130
# text = Get hence quickly or the priest will turn thee into a wolf again.
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hence, quickly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **turn** | future | the priest | thee |  | a wolf | again |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent thou=Theme into wolf=Trajectory |

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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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