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title: “Now and again perhaps a badly packed saddle will upset a mule, but… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now and again perhaps a badly packed saddle will upset a mule, but it’s very seldom. Who acts: packed saddle. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 78

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“Now and again perhaps a badly packed saddle will upset a mule, but it’s very seldom.

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**Who acts:** packed saddle · **What happens:** upset · **To what, where:** mule

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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 (packed saddle), 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:pg236:19:78
# text = “Now and again perhaps a badly packed saddle will upset a mule, but it’s very seldom.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
5	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	packed	packed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	upset	upset	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **upset** *in a quote* | future | a packed saddle | a mule |  |  | now |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mule=Experiencer |

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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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