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title: “By the Blue Gums of the Back Blocks,” snorted the troop-horse, “do… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “By the Blue Gums of the Back Blocks,” snorted the troop-horse, “do you mean to say that you aren’t taught to be bridle-wise in your business? Who acts: Blue Gums, you. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 48

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“By the Blue Gums of the Back Blocks,” snorted the troop-horse, “do you mean to say that you aren’t taught to be bridle-wise in your business?

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**Who acts:** Blue Gums, you · **What happens:** snort, mean, say, not teach, be · **To what, where:** troop horse, you, business · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blue Gums, 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:pg236:19:48
# text = “By the Blue Gums of the Back Blocks,” snorted the troop-horse, “do you mean to say that you aren’t taught to be bridle-wise in your business?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Blue	Blue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Gums	Gum	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Back	Back	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Blocks	Block	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	snorted	snort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
31	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **snort** | past | the Blue Gums of the Back Blocks | the troop horse |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | your business |  | wise *property* | tree rules |

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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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