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title: Well, well, we will overlook thy letting the herd run off, and perha… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, well, we will overlook thy letting the herd run off, and perhaps I will give thee one of the rupees of the reward when I have taken the skin to Khanhiwara.” Who acts: we, thy, herd, I. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 85

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Well, well, we will overlook thy letting the herd run off, and perhaps I will give thee one of the rupees of the reward when I have taken the skin to Khanhiwara.”

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**Who acts:** we, thy, herd, I · **What happens:** overlook, let, run off, give, take · **To what, where:** herd, one, thee, skin, Khanhiwara

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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 (we, thy, herd, 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:pg236:9:85
# text = Well, well, we will overlook thy letting the herd run off, and perhaps I will give thee one of the rupees of the reward when I have taken the skin to Khanhiwara.”
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	overlook	overlook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
9	letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	iobj	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rupees	rupee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Khanhiwara	Khanhiwara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overlook** | future | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | gerund | thy | the herd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run off** | infinitive | the herd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | future | I | one of the rupees of the reward | thee |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient one=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | present · perfect | I | the skin | Khanhiwara |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent skin=Theme to khanhiwara=Destination |

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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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