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title: But, son, I am angry that thou shouldst meddle in the business that… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, son, I am angry that thou shouldst meddle in the business that belongs to these dirty Assamese jungle folk. Who acts: son, thou, business. 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 55

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But, son, I am angry that thou shouldst meddle in the business that belongs to these dirty Assamese jungle folk.

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**Who acts:** son, thou, business · **What happens:** be, meddle, belong · **To what, where:** business

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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 (son, thou, business), 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:pg236:16:55
# text = But, son, I am angry that thou shouldst meddle in the business that belongs to these dirty Assamese jungle folk.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shouldst	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	meddle	meddle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
19	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	Assamese	assamese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | son |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **meddle** | should | thou |  |  | the business |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **belong** | present | the business |  |  |  |  | to dirty Assamese jungle folk | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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