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title: He was scarred all over with the marks of savage fights, but he was… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was scarred all over with the marks of savage fights, but he was always ready for just one fight more. Who acts: Catch. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 113

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He was scarred all over with the marks of savage fights, but he was always ready for just one fight more.

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**Who acts:** Catch · **What happens:** scar, be, mark · **To what, where:** Catch, savage fights

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catch), 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:pg236:10:113
# text = He was scarred all over with the marks of savage fights, but he was always ready for just one fight more.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	scarred	scar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scar** | past · passive |  | Catch |  |  |  | with the marks of savage fights; over *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with mark=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Catch |  |  |  |  | for one fight; always, ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Catch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mark** |  |  | savage fights |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=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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