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title: He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fig… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment’s sake. Who acts: Father, Wolf. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1, with its dependency tree an
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 128

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He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment’s sake.

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**Who acts:** Father, Wolf · **What happens:** forget, win, run, not call · **To what, where:** Mother Wolf, fair fight, Pack, Demon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, Wolf), 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:pg236:1:128
# text = He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment’s sake.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
30	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past · perfect | Father |  |  |  | day | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** | past | Father | Mother Wolf |  | fair fight |  | from five other wolves | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme from wolf=Source |
| 3 | **run** | past | Wolf |  |  | the Pack |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pack=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **call** | past · passive | Wolf *not said here* | the Demon |  |  |  | for compliment's sake | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: for sake=Recipient |

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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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