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title: I never knew before what made Indian cattle so scared of Englishmen. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I never knew before what made Indian cattle so scared of Englishmen. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 119

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I never knew before what made Indian cattle so scared of Englishmen.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not know, make · **To what, where:** Indian cattle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg236:2381`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:20:119
# text = I never knew before what made Indian cattle so scared of Englishmen.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Englishmen	englishman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | past | I |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | past |  | Indian cattle |  |  |  | scared *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material cattle=Product |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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