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title: “I’ve often thought we should be much happier if we hauled out at Ot… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I’ve often thought we should be much happier if we hauled out at Otter Island instead of this crowded place,” said Matkah. Who acts: I, we, Matkah. 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 139

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“I’ve often thought we should be much happier if we hauled out at Otter Island instead of this crowded place,” said Matkah.

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**Who acts:** I, we, Matkah · **What happens:** think, be, haul out, say · **To what, where:** Otter Island · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, we, Matkah), 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:pg236:10:139
# text = “I’ve often thought we should be much happier if we hauled out at Otter Island instead of this crowded place,” said Matkah.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	ccomp	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hauled	haul	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Otter	Otter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	Matkah	Matkah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | should | we |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **haul out** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | we |  |  | Otter Island |  | instead this crowded place | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Matkah |  |  |  |  |  | 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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