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title: There was a chorus of deep growls, and a young wolf in his fourth ye… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a chorus of deep growls, and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back Shere Khan’s question to Akela: “What have the Free People to do with a man’s cub?” Who acts: chorus, Akela, Shere. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1, with its dependency tree 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 170

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There was a chorus of deep growls, and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back Shere Khan’s question to Akela: “What have the Free People to do with a man’s cub?”

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**Who acts:** chorus, Akela, Shere · **What happens:** be, fling back, have, do, chorus, question · **To what, where:** young wolf, Free People, deep growls · **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 (chorus, Akela, Shere), 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:pg236:1:170
# text = There was a chorus of deep growls, and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back Shere Khan’s question to Akela: “What have the Free People to do with a man’s cub?”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	growls	growl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
22	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Akela	Akela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	obj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a chorus of deep growls |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fling back** | participle · passive | Akela | a young wolf in chorus's fourth year |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination question=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | the Free People |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with a man's cub | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **chorus** |  |  | deep growls |  |  |  |  | nom chorus «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **question** |  | Shere |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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