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title: I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chain-- I will rem… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chain-- I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 118

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I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chain-- I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** remember, be · **To what, where:** old strength

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg236:15:118
# text = I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chain-- I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | of rope and chain; sick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **remember** | future | I | my old strength and my forest affairs |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent strength=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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