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title: He may have belonged to some little native king’s establishment, fif… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He may have belonged to some little native king’s establishment, fifty or sixty or a hundred miles away. Who acts: two, native king. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 10

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He may have belonged to some little native king’s establishment, fifty or sixty or a hundred miles away.

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**Who acts:** two, native king · **What happens:** belong, establish

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, native king), 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:pg236:18:10
# text = He may have belonged to some little native king’s establishment, fifty or sixty or a hundred miles away.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	belonged	belong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
19	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | may · perfect | two |  |  |  |  | to some native king's establishment; away *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** |  | some native king |  |  |  |  |  | nom establishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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