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title: Then Shere Khan would flatter them and wonder that such fine young h… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Shere Khan would flatter them and wonder that such fine young hunters were content to be led by a dying wolf and a man’s cub. Who acts: Shere, such fine young hunters, dying wolf. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 71

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Then Shere Khan would flatter them and wonder that such fine young hunters were content to be led by a dying wolf and a man’s cub.

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**Who acts:** Shere, such fine young hunters, dying wolf · **What happens:** flatter, wonder, be, lead, die · **To what, where:** wolves · **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 (Shere, such fine young hunters, dying wolf), 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:pg236:2:71
# text = Then Shere Khan would flatter them and wonder that such fine young hunters were content to be led by a dying wolf and a man’s cub.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	flatter	flatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flatter** | would | Shere | wolves *= wolf* |  |  | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Shere *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | such fine young hunters |  |  |  |  | content *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lead** | to-infinitive · passive | a dying wolf and a man's cub |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 5 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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