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title: Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council--Bal… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council--Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey--rose upon his hind quarters and grunted. Who acts: sleepy brow
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 4

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Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council--Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey--rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.

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**Who acts:** sleepy brown bear, old Baloo, answer · **What happens:** allow, teach, come, go, please, eat · **To what, where:** only other creature, Pack Council, wolf cubs, nuts, hind quarters

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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 (sleepy brown bear, old Baloo, answer), 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:pg236:2:4
# text = Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council--Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey--rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Pack	Pack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	parataxis	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
39	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	pleases	please	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
42	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	ccomp	_	_
45	only	only	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	parataxis	_	_
53	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
55	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	grunted	grunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | present · passive |  | the only other creature |  | the Pack Council |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | the sleepy brown bear | the wolf cubs |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cub=Recipient |
| 3 | **come** | can | old Baloo |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | old Baloo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **please** | present | answer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **eat** | present | answer | nuts and roots and honey |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient |
| 7 | **rise** | past |  |  |  | answer's hind quarters |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon quarter=Location |
| 8 | **grunt** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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