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title: The Law of the Jungle lays down very clearly that any wolf may, when… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Law of the Jungle lays down very clearly that any wolf may, when he marries, withdraw from the Pack he belongs to. Who acts: Law. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 147

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The Law of the Jungle lays down very clearly that any wolf may, when he marries, withdraw from the Pack he belongs to.

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**Who acts:** Law · **What happens:** lay down, marry, withdraw, belong to · **To what, where:** Pack

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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 (Law), 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:pg236:1:147
# text = The Law of the Jungle lays down very clearly that any wolf may, when he marries, withdraw from the Pack he belongs to.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	lays	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	marries	marry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay down** | present | the Law of the Jungle |  |  |  |  | clearly, down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **marry** | present | Law |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **withdraw** | infinitive | Law *not said here* |  |  | the Pack |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pack=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **belong to** | present | Law | the Pack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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