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title: And just because he knew that Nagaina’s children were born in eggs l… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And just because he knew that Nagaina’s children were born in eggs like his own, he didn’t think at first that it was fair to kill them. Who acts: Darzee. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 135

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And just because he knew that Nagaina’s children were born in eggs like his own, he didn’t think at first that it was fair to kill them.

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**Who acts:** Darzee · **What happens:** know, bear, not think, be, kill · **To what, where:** children, eggs

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darzee), 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:pg236:14:135
# text = And just because he knew that Nagaina’s children were born in eggs like his own, he didn’t think at first that it was fair to kill them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	obl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	expl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	csubj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Darzee |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **bear** | past · passive |  | Nagaina's children |  | eggs |  | like Darzee's own | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Darzee |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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