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title: “That was foolishness, for though Tabaqui is a mischief-maker, he wo… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “That was foolishness, for though Tabaqui is a mischief-maker, he would have told thee of something that concerned thee closely. Who acts: Tabaqui. 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 88

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“That was foolishness, for though Tabaqui is a mischief-maker, he would have told thee of something that concerned thee closely.

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**Who acts:** Tabaqui · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** foolishness, thee · **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 (Tabaqui), 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:pg236:2:88
# text = “That was foolishness, for though Tabaqui is a mischief-maker, he would have told thee of something that concerned thee closely.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	foolishness	foolishness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	iobj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
25	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | that foolishness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Tabaqui |  |  |  |  | for a mischief maker | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would · perfect · passive |  | that foolishness | thee |  |  | of something; closely *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient thou=Topic |

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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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