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title: Now to Baloo’s word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now to Baloo’s word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man’s cub according to the Law. Who acts: I, ye, Baloo. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 31

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Now to Baloo’s word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man’s cub according to the Law.

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**Who acts:** I, ye, Baloo · **What happens:** add, kill, accept, accord, word · **To what, where:** one bull, fat one, cub

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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 (I, ye, Baloo), 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:pg236:2:31
# text = Now to Baloo’s word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man’s cub according to the Law.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	case	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | future | I | one bull |  |  | now | to Baloo's word | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bull=Patient to word=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **kill** | participle |  | a fat one *not said here* |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **accept** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | ye | the man's cub |  |  |  | accord the Law | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Theme |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **word** |  | Baloo |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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