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title: “I’m the breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Batt… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I’m the breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Battery,” said the mule, “and the other’s one of your friends. Who acts: mule. 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 123

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“I’m the breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Battery,” said the mule, “and the other’s one of your friends.

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**Who acts:** mule · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** piece mule · **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 (mule), 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:pg236:18:123
# text = “I’m the breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Battery,” said the mule, “and the other’s one of your friends.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	breech	breech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
16	Screw	Screw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	ccomp	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | the mule *= mule* | the piece mule of number gun of the First Screw Battery |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mule=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mule |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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