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title: The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason,… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe. Who acts: Law. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, T
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 64

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The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.

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**Who acts:** Law · **What happens:** not order, forbid, eat, kill, show, hunt · **To what, where:** anything, beast, Man, children, hunting grounds

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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), 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:pg236:1:64
# text = The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	orders	order	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	forbids	forbid	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	except	except	ADP	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	acl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
39	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	38	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **order** | present | the Law of the Jungle | anything |  |  |  | without a reason | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
| 2 | **forbid** | present | the Law of the Jungle *not said here* | every beast |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer beast=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the Law of the Jungle *not said here* | Man |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 4 | **kill** | present · progressive | Law |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **show** | to-infinitive | Law *not said here* |  | Law's children |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
| 6 | **kill** | to-infinitive | Law *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **hunt** | must | Law |  |  | the hunting grounds of Law's pack or tribe | then |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent outside grounds=Location |

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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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