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title: “Then, by the Bull that bought me, I will pay Shere Khan full tale f… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then, by the Bull that bought me, I will pay Shere Khan full tale for this, and it may be a little over,” said Mowgli, and he bounded away. Who acts: Bull, Mowgli, tale. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 139

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“Then, by the Bull that bought me, I will pay Shere Khan full tale for this, and it may be a little over,” said Mowgli, and he bounded away.

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**Who acts:** Bull, Mowgli, tale · **What happens:** buy, pay, be, say, bound away · **To what, where:** Mowgli, Shere, little over · **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 (Bull, Mowgli, tale), 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:pg236:2:139
# text = “Then, by the Bull that bought me, I will pay Shere Khan full tale for this, and it may be a little over,” said Mowgli, and he bounded away.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
14	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	over	over	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	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 | **buy** *in a quote* | past | the Bull |  | Mowgli |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** *in a quote* | future | Mowgli | Shere |  |  | then | by the Bull | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shere=Asset |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | may | tale | a little over |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **bound away** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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