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title: Who are we, the Gidur-log [the jackal people], to pick and choose?” — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Who are we, the Gidur-log [the jackal people], to pick and choose?” 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 23

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Who are we, the Gidur-log \[the jackal people\], to pick and choose?”

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**What happens:** be, pick, choose · **To what, where:** Gidur log

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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: 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:pg236:1:23
# text = Who are we, the Gidur-log [the jackal people], to pick and choose?”
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Gidur	Gidur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Gidur log |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pick** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **choose** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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