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title: Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mowgli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books. Who acts: you, Mowgli, life. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, par
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 52

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Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mowgli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.

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**Who acts:** you, Mowgli, life · **What happens:** be, skip, guess, lead, write out, fill · **To what, where:** wonderful life, wolves, life, many books

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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, Mowgli, life), 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:pg236:2:52
# text = Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mowgli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	skip	skip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
8	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	guess	guess	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
25	among	among	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
38	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | you |  |  |  | now | content *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **skip** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **guess** | infinitive |  |  |  | all wonderful life |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at life=Value |
| 4 | **lead** | past | Mowgli |  |  | the wolves |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among wolf=Destination |
| 5 | **write out** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | life |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **fill** | would | life | many books |  |  | ever |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent book=Patient |

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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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