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title: “A boy who can face a full Keddah at his age does not end in jails. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “A boy who can face a full Keddah at his age does not end in jails. Who acts: boy. 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 97

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“A boy who can face a full Keddah at his age does not end in jails.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** face, not end · **To what, where:** full Keddah, age, jails

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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 (boy), 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:pg236:16:97
# text = “A boy who can face a full Keddah at his age does not end in jails.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	jails	jail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** *in a quote* | can | a boy |  | a full Keddah |  | at boy's age |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent keddah=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **end** *in a quote* | present · do-support | a boy |  |  | jails |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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