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title: It was because of this that I paid the price for thee at the Council… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was because of this that I paid the price for thee at the Council when thou wast a little naked cub. Who acts: collar, I. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 102

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It was because of this that I paid the price for thee at the Council when thou wast a little naked cub.

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**Who acts:** collar, I · **What happens:** be, pay · **To what, where:** price, Council

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (collar, I), 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:pg236:2:102
# text = It was because of this that I paid the price for thee at the Council when thou wast a little naked cub.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wast	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | collar |  |  |  |  | because this | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | past | I | the price |  | the Council |  | for thee | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient price=Asset |

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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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