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title: But look here--you seem to have a fondness for talking to your bette… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But look here--you seem to have a fondness for talking to your betters--suppose you go to Walrus Islet and talk to Sea Vitch. Who acts: you, fondness. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 99

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But look here--you seem to have a fondness for talking to your betters--suppose you go to Walrus Islet and talk to Sea Vitch.

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**Who acts:** you, fondness · **What happens:** look, seem, have, talk, suppose, go · **To what, where:** fondness, Walrus, Sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fondness), 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:pg236:11:99
# text = But look here--you seem to have a fondness for talking to your betters--suppose you go to Walrus Islet and talk to Sea Vitch.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fondness	fondness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	betters	better	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Walrus	Walrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	Islet	Islet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **seem** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a fondness |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fondness=Patient |
| 4 | **talk** | gerund | a fondness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your betters | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to better=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **suppose** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | present | you |  |  | Walrus |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to walrus=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **talk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | Sea |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to sea=Co-Agent |

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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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