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title: Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength an… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could. Who act
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 152

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Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.

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**Who acts:** Akela, colored veterans, young black year olds · **What happens:** lead, lay out, sit, color, handle, think · **To what, where:** Pack, full length, forty wolves, colored veterans, buck

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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 (Akela, colored veterans, young black year olds), 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:pg236:1:152
# text = Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
1	Akela	Akela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	Lone	Lone	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl:relcl	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	below	below	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
31	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
32	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	conj	_	_
35	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
46	veterans	veteran	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
48	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl:relcl	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	buck	buck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
54	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
55	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
56	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	58	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	olds	old	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
61	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	62	nsubj	_	_
62	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	acl:relcl	_	_
63	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
64	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	62	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | Akela | all Pack |  |  |  | by strength and cunning | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pack=Theme by strength=Destination |
| 2 | **lay out** | present |  |  |  | full length on Akela's rock |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at length=Destination |
| 3 | **sit** | past |  | forty wolves of every size and color |  | colored veterans |  | below Akela | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme below he=Location |
| 4 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **handle** | could | colored veterans | a buck |  |  |  | to young black year olds; alone *property* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buck=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | young black year olds |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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