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title: “Fired at without the chance of running into the people who are firi… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Fired at without the chance of running into the people who are firing!” said the troop-horse, thinking hard. Who acts: chance, people, troop horse. 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 86

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“Fired at without the chance of running into the people who are firing!” said the troop-horse, thinking hard.

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**Who acts:** chance, people, troop horse · **What happens:** fire, run, say, think · **To what, where:** chance · **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 (chance, people, troop horse), 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:pg236:19:86
# text = “Fired at without the chance of running into the people who are firing!” said the troop-horse, thinking hard.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	firing	fire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fire** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | the chance |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at chance=Destination |
| 2 | **run** *in a quote* | gerund | the chance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the people *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into people=Result |
| 3 | **fire** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the people |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the troop horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the troop horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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