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title: Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run a little, and then on the… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run a little, and then on the night of the Pack Meeting took them and Mowgli and Mother Wolf to the Council Rock--a hilltop covered with stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could hide. Who acts: Father, cubs, hundred wolves. A sentence of «The Jungle Boo
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 151

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Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run a little, and then on the night of the Pack Meeting took them and Mowgli and Mother Wolf to the Council Rock--a hilltop covered with stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could hide.

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**Who acts:** Father, cubs, hundred wolves · **What happens:** wait, run, take, cover, hide · **To what, where:** little, cubs, hilltop

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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, cubs, hundred wolves), 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:pg236:1:151
# text = Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run a little, and then on the night of the Pack Meeting took them and Mowgli and Mother Wolf to the Council Rock--a hilltop covered with stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could hide.
1	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
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	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Pack	Pack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Meeting	Meeting	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Rock	Rock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hilltop	hilltop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	boulders	boulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
40	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	45	advmod	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
44	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | Father |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | could | Father's cubs | a little |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | Father *not said here* | cubs *= cub* |  |  | then; night | to the Council Rock | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument they=Theme mowgli=Destination |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  | a hilltop *not said here* |  |  |  | with stones and boulders | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme |
| 5 | **hide** | could | hundred wolves |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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