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title: Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father and mother. Who acts: Law, Pack, two members. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Th
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 171

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Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father and mother.

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**Who acts:** Law, Pack, two members · **What happens:** lay down, be, accept, speak, not be · **To what, where:** dispute, father · **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 (Law, Pack, two members), 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:pg236:1:171
# text = Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father and mother.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	lays	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Pack	Pack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	obl	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	nmod	_	_
38	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
44	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	acl:relcl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay down** | present | the Law of the Jungle |  |  |  | now |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as the right; of a cub | tree rules |
| 3 | **accept** | to-infinitive · passive | the Pack |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | must · passive | two members of the Pack | dispute |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | two members of the Pack | dispute's father and mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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