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title: “Another time,” he said, “you’ll know better than to run through a m… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Another time,” he said, “you’ll know better than to run through a mule battery at night, shouting `Thieves and fire!’ Who acts: camel, you. 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 115

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“Another time,” he said, “you’ll know better than to run through a mule battery at night, shouting \`Thieves and fire!’

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**Who acts:** camel, you · **What happens:** say, know, run, shout · **To what, where:** mule battery, Thieves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (camel, you), 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:pg236:18:115
# text = “Another time,” he said, “you’ll know better than to run through a mule battery at night, shouting `Thieves and fire!’
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
25	`	`	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | camel |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **run** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a mule battery | night |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through battery=Trajectory |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | camel *not said here* | Thieves and fire |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic |

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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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