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title: “No matter,” said Little Toomai, turning up the fringe of Kala Nag’s… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “No matter,” said Little Toomai, turning up the fringe of Kala Nag’s huge right ear. Who acts: matter. 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 68

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“No matter,” said Little Toomai, turning up the fringe of Kala Nag’s huge right ear.

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**Who acts:** matter · **What happens:** say, turn up · **To what, where:** fringe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (matter), 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:pg236:16:68
# text = “No matter,” said Little Toomai, turning up the fringe of Kala Nag’s huge right ear.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fringe	fringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
18	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | no matter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn up** | gerund | no matter *not said here* | the fringe of Kala's huge right ear |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fringe=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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