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title: He loved better than anything else to go with Bagheera into the dark… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He loved better than anything else to go with Bagheera into the dark warm heart of the forest, to sleep all through the drowsy day, and at night see how Bagheera did his killing. Who acts: Mowgli, Bagheera. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its depende
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 61

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He loved better than anything else to go with Bagheera into the dark warm heart of the forest, to sleep all through the drowsy day, and at night see how Bagheera did his killing.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli, Bagheera · **What happens:** love, go, sleep, see, do, kill · **To what, where:** dark warm heart, killing · **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), 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:pg236:2:61
# text = He loved better than anything else to go with Bagheera into the dark warm heart of the forest, to sleep all through the drowsy day, and at night see how Bagheera did his killing.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
33	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	killing	killing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | than anything; well *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  | the dark warm heart of the forest |  | with Bagheera | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into heart=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | present | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | past | Bagheera | Mowgli's killing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent killing=Eventuality |
| 6 | **kill** |  | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | nom killing «event transitive»: poss=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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