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title: “Then why didn’t you stay and carry baggage for the 39th Native Infa… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then why didn’t you stay and carry baggage for the 39th Native Infantry, instead of running all round the camp?” said the mule. Who acts: you, 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 134

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“Then why didn’t you stay and carry baggage for the 39th Native Infantry, instead of running all round the camp?” said the mule.

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**Who acts:** you, mule · **What happens:** not do, stay, carry, run, say · **To what, where:** baggage, camp · **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 (you, 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:pg236:18:134
# text = “Then why didn’t you stay and carry baggage for the 39th Native Infantry, instead of running all round the camp?” said the mule.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	baggage	baggage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	39th	39th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
14	Native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Infantry	infantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	ccomp	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	round	round	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | baggage |  |  |  | for the 39th Native Infantry | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baggage=Theme |
| 4 | **run** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  | the camp |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round camp=Trajectory |
| 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | 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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