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title: “Ay, roar well,” said Bagheera, under his whiskers, “for the time wi… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ay, roar well,” said Bagheera, under his whiskers, “for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man.” Who acts: you, Bagheera, naked thing, thee. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependen
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 43

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“Ay, roar well,” said Bagheera, under his whiskers, “for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man.”

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**Who acts:** you, Bagheera, naked thing, thee, deep bay · **What happens:** roar, say, come, make, know · **To what, where:** whiskers, thee, tune, nothing · **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 (you, Bagheera, naked thing, thee), 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:pg236:2:43
# text = “Ay, roar well,” said Bagheera, under his whiskers, “for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ay	ay	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	roar	roar	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
27	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	obj	_	_
28	roar	roar	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	35	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | Bagheera's whiskers |  | well *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under whisker=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Bagheera |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | future | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | future | this naked thing | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **roar** *in a quote* | infinitive | thee *not said here* |  | another tune |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tune=Recipient |
| 6 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Akela's deep bay *= bay* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

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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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