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title: From her breast she plucked it, Parbati the thief, Saw the Least of… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From her breast she plucked it, Parbati the thief, Saw the Least of Little Things gnawed a new-grown leaf! Who acts: Shiva, Least. 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 75

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From her breast she plucked it, Parbati the thief, Saw the Least of Little Things gnawed a new-grown leaf!

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**Who acts:** Shiva, Least · **What happens:** pluck, see, gnaw, grow · **To what, where:** breast, grown leaf · **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 (Shiva, Least), 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:pg236:18:75
# text = From her breast she plucked it, Parbati the thief, Saw the Least of Little Things gnawed a new-grown leaf!
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Parbati	Parbati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Least	Least	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Things	Thing	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck** | past | Shiva | breast |  | Shiva's breast |  | Parbati *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from breast=Source |
| 2 | **see** | past | Shiva *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **gnaw** | past | the Least of Little Things | a grown leaf |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 4 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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