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title: Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, “Come along, Little Bro… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, “Come along, Little Brother,” and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape. Who acts: Bagheera, Mowgli. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The J
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 57

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Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, “Come along, Little Brother,” and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape.

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**Who acts:** Bagheera, Mowgli · **What happens:** lie out, call, come along, cling, fling · **To what, where:** branch, Mowgli, branches · **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 (Bagheera, Mowgli), 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:pg236:2:57
# text = Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, “Come along, Little Brother,” and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape.
1	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
13	along	along	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	obl	_	_
22	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	cling	cling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sloth	sloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	afterward	afterward	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	fling	fling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
34	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	through	through	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	as	as	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	ape	ape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie out** | would | Bagheera |  |  | a branch |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive | Bagheera *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come along** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | Little Brother *vocative*; along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cling** | would | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | like the sloth | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Location |
| 5 | **fling** | would | Mowgli | Mowgli |  | the branches |  | boldly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme through branch=Destination |

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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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