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title: Are bad for baby seals, dear rat, As bad as bad can be; But splash a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Are bad for baby seals, dear rat, As bad as bad can be; But splash and grow strong, And you can’t be wrong. Who acts: you. 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 155

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Are bad for baby seals, dear rat, As bad as bad can be; But splash and grow strong, And you can’t be wrong.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, splash, grow, not be

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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 (you), 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:pg236:10:155
# text = Are bad for baby seals, dear rat, As bad as bad can be; But splash and grow strong, And you can’t be wrong.
1	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	As	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	splash	splash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for baby seals  dear rat; bad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **can** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **splash** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** | can | you |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

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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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