--- title: But as soon as his cubs are old enough to stand on their feet he mus… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: But as soon as his cubs are old enough to stand on their feet he must bring them to the Pack Council, which is generally held once a month at full moon, in order that the other wolves may identify them. Who acts: cubs, Law, other wolves. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/1/148/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/1/) / 148 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 148 But as soon as his cubs are old enough to stand on their feet he must bring them to the Pack Council, which is generally held once a month at full moon, in order that the other wolves may identify them. **Who acts:** cubs, Law, other wolves · **What happens:** be, stand, bring, hold, identify · **To what, where:** feet, cubs, Pack Council, full moon 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 (cubs, Law, other wolves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:1:148 # text = But as soon as his cubs are old enough to stand on their feet he must bring them to the Pack Council, which is generally held once a month at full moon, in order that the other wolves may identify them. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 as as ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 cubs cub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 enough enough ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 Pack Pack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Council Council PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 generally generally ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl:relcl _ _ 28 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 27 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 41 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 identify identify VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Law's cubs | | | | | enough, old, soon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stand** | to-infinitive | Law's cubs *not said here* | | | cubs's feet | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location | | 3 | **bring** | must | Law | cubs *= cub* | the Pack Council | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to council=Destination | | 4 | **hold** | present · passive | | the Pack Council | | full moon | | in order; generally, once *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at moon=Location | | 5 | **identify** | may | the other wolves | cubs *= cub* | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/1/147/) - next →: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/1/149/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/1/)