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title: All he said was: “Look well, O Wolves! — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All he said was: “Look well, O Wolves! Who acts: Akela. 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 167

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All he said was: “Look well, O Wolves!

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**Who acts:** Akela · **What happens:** say, be, look · **To what, where:** O Wolves · **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 (Akela), 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:pg236:1:167
# text = All he said was: “Look well, O Wolves!
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	ccomp	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Akela |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | Akela *not said here* | O Wolves |  |  |  | well *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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