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title: Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. Who acts: Everybody, nobody, Bagheera. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependency
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 16

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Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.

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**Who acts:** Everybody, nobody, Bagheera · **What happens:** know, care, cross, be · **To what, where:** Bagheera, path

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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 (Everybody, nobody, Bagheera), 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:pg236:2:16
# text = Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	reckless	reckless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Everybody | Bagheera |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bagheera=Stimulus |
| 2 | **care** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cross** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | Bagheera's path |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | Bagheera |  |  |  |  | as Tabaqui; cunning *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | Bagheera *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the wild buffalo | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | Bagheera *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the wounded elephant | tree rules |

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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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