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title: “His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing,” sai… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing,” said Mother Wolf quietly. Who acts: mother, Mother Wolf. 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 39

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“His mother did not call him Lungri \[the Lame One\] for nothing,” said Mother Wolf quietly.

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**Who acts:** mother, Mother Wolf · **What happens:** not call, say · **To what, where:** 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 (mother, Mother Wolf), 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:pg236:1:39
# text = “His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing,” said Mother Wolf quietly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	Lungri	Lungri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **call** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Father's mother | Father |  |  |  | for nothing | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for nothing=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mother Wolf |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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