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title: “And for that reason,” said the native officer, twirling his mustach… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “And for that reason,” said the native officer, twirling his mustache, “your Amir whom you do not obey must come here and take orders from our Viceroy.” Who acts: reason, you, Amir. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 172

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“And for that reason,” said the native officer, twirling his mustache, “your Amir whom you do not obey must come here and take orders from our Viceroy.”

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**Who acts:** reason, you, Amir · **What happens:** say, twirl, not obey, come, take · **To what, where:** native officer, mustache, Amir, orders, Viceroy · **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 (reason, you, Amir), 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:pg236:20:172
# text = “And for that reason,” said the native officer, twirling his mustache, “your Amir whom you do not obey must come here and take orders from our Viceroy.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	twirling	twirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mustache	mustache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Amir	amir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
30	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	Viceroy	viceroy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | that reason | the native officer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent officer=Topic |
| 2 | **twirl** | gerund | that reason *not said here* | reason's mustache |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent mustache=Material |
| 3 | **not** **obey** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | your Amir |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | must | your Amir |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | present | your Amir *not said here* | orders |  | our Viceroy |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent order=Theme from viceroy=Initial\_Location |

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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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