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title: Father Wolf began angrily--“By the Law of the Jungle he has no right… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Father Wolf began angrily--“By the Law of the Jungle he has no right to change his quarters without due warning. Who acts: Father. 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 37

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Father Wolf began angrily--“By the Law of the Jungle he has no right to change his quarters without due warning.

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**Who acts:** Father · **What happens:** begin, have, change · **To what, where:** right, quarters

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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 (Father), 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:pg236:1:37
# text = Father Wolf began angrily--“By the Law of the Jungle he has no right to change his quarters without due warning.
1	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	By	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Father |  |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Father | no right |  |  |  | by the Law of the Jungle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 3 | **change** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Father *not said here* | Father's quarters |  |  |  | without due warning | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Patient |

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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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