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title: “Tabaqui came to me not long ago with some rude talk that I was a na… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Tabaqui came to me not long ago with some rude talk that I was a naked man’s cub and not fit to dig pig-nuts. Who acts: Tabaqui, Ho ho. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 86

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“Tabaqui came to me not long ago with some rude talk that I was a naked man’s cub and not fit to dig pig-nuts.

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**Who acts:** Tabaqui, Ho ho · **What happens:** come, be, not fit, dig · **To what, where:** Ho ho, cub, pig nuts

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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 (Tabaqui, Ho ho), 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:pg236:2:86
# text = “Tabaqui came to me not long ago with some rude talk that I was a naked man’s cub and not fit to dig pig-nuts.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Tabaqui |  | Ho ho *= ho* |  |  | with some rude talk; ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Ho ho *= ho* | a naked man's cub |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **fit** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ho ho *= ho* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dig** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Ho ho *= ho* *not said here* | pig nuts |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nut=Theme |

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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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