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title: He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, an… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 60

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He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts, but he had a mistrust of men because Bagheera showed him a square box with a drop gate so cunningly hidden in the jungle that he nearly walked into it, and told him that it was a trap.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli, Bagheera, box · **What happens:** go down, cultivate, look, have, show, hide · **To what, where:** hillside, cultivated lands, mistrust, square box, Mowgli, jungle · **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 (Mowgli, Bagheera, box), 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:pg236:2:60
# text = He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts, but he had a mistrust of men because Bagheera showed him a square box with a drop gate so cunningly hidden in the jungle that he nearly walked into it, and told him that it was a trap.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mistrust	mistrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	cunningly	cunningly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
53	into	into	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
58	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	iobj	_	_
59	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
61	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | would | Mowgli | the hillside |  | the cultivated lands | night | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **cultivate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at the villagers in wolves's huts; curiously *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at villager=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | Mowgli | a mistrust of men |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistrust=Patient |
| 5 | **show** | past | Bagheera | a square box | Mowgli |  |  | with a drop gate | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient box=Topic |
| 6 | **hide** | participle | Bagheera *not said here* |  |  | the jungle |  | cunningly *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in jungle=Location |
| 7 | **walk** | past | Mowgli | the jungle *not said here* |  | Jungle |  | nearly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent jungle=Theme into it=Trajectory |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Bagheera *not said here* |  | Mowgli |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 9 | **is a** | past | box | a trap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **mistrust** |  |  | men |  |  |  |  | nom mistrust «cognition transitive»: of=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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