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title: “Oh, if you’re trying to back out, of course I’ve no more to say,” s… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, if you’re trying to back out, of course I’ve no more to say,” said the young seal with an ugly chuckle. Who acts: young seal. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 91

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“Oh, if you’re trying to back out, of course I’ve no more to say,” said the young seal with an ugly chuckle.

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**Who acts:** young seal · **What happens:** try, back out, have, say · **To what, where:** more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young seal), 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:pg236:12:91
# text = “Oh, if you’re trying to back out, of course I’ve no more to say,” said the young seal with an ugly chuckle.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’re	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	back	back	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	15	advmod	_	_
13	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	fixed	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’ve	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	chuckle	chuckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** *in a quote* | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **back out** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the young seal *= seal* | no more |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the young seal *= seal* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the young seal |  |  |  |  |  | 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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