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title: Go away!” shouted the priest, waving a sprig of the sacred tulsi pla… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Go away!” shouted the priest, waving a sprig of the sacred tulsi plant. Who acts: you. 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 141

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Go away!” shouted the priest, waving a sprig of the sacred tulsi plant.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** go away, shout, wave · **To what, where:** priest, sprig

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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), 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:pg236:9:141
# text = Go away!” shouted the priest, waving a sprig of the sacred tulsi plant.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sprig	sprig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	tulsi	tulsi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **go away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | the priest |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Topic |
| 3 | **wave** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | a sprig of the sacred tulsi plant |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprig=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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