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title: Therefore all the wild elephants to-night will--but why should I was… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore all the wild elephants to-night will--but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?” Who acts: wild elephants. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 133

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Therefore all the wild elephants to-night will--but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?”

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**Who acts:** wild elephants · **What happens:** waste · **To what, where:** wisdom, river turtle

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild elephants), 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:pg236:16:133
# text = Therefore all the wild elephants to-night will--but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?”
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	waste	waste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waste** | should · future | all wild elephants to night | wisdom |  |  |  | on a river turtle *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent wisdom=Asset on turtle=Goal |

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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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