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title: By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the jungle wi… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the jungle will call fire by its proper name. Who acts: Red Flower, creature. 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 127

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By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the jungle will call fire by its proper name.

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**Who acts:** Red Flower, creature · **What happens:** mean, call, name · **To what, where:** fire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Red Flower, creature), 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:pg236:2:127
# text = By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the jungle will call fire by its proper name.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Flower	Flower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | Red Flower | fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | future | no creature in the jungle | fire |  |  |  | by creature's proper name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fire=Recipient |
| 3 | **name** |  | creature |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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