--- title: It was the jackal--Tabaqui, the Dish-licker--and the wolves of India… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was the jackal--Tabaqui, the Dish-licker--and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps. Who acts: luck, wolves, Tabaqui. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luck, wolves, Tabaqui), 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:pg236:1:17 # text = It was the jackal--Tabaqui, the Dish-licker--and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 jackal jackal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 -- -- PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Tabaqui Tabaqui PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 Dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 licker licker NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 despise despise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 Tabaqui Tabaqui PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 23 about about SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 25 mischief mischief NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 parataxis _ _ 29 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 33 rags rag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 leather leather NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 40 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 41 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | luck | the jackal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **despise** | present | the wolves of India | Tabaqui | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tabaqui=Stimulus | | 3 | **run** | present | Tabaqui | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | gerund | Tabaqui *not said here* | mischief | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mischief=Product | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | tales | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 6 | **eat** | gerund | | rags and pieces of leather | | the village rubbish heaps | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rag=Patient | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/1/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/1/18/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/1/)