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title: Fare you well, children of men, and thank Messua that I do not come… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Fare you well, children of men, and thank Messua that I do not come in with my wolves and hunt you up and down your street.” Who acts: I. 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 166

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Fare you well, children of men, and thank Messua that I do not come in with my wolves and hunt you up and down your street.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** thank, not come in, hunt up · **To what, where:** Messua, you

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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 (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:pg236:9:166
# text = Fare you well, children of men, and thank Messua that I do not come in with my wolves and hunt you up and down your street.”
1	Fare	fare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	Messua	Messua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present |  |  | Messua |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messua=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **come in** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | with my wolves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hunt up** | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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