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title: Good luck to every sergeant, then, that lets us pick our road; Bad l… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Good luck to every sergeant, then, that lets us pick our road; Bad luck to all the driver-men that cannot pack a load: For we can wriggle and climb, my lads, and turn up everywhere, Oh, it’s our delight on a mountain height, with a leg or two to spare! Who acts: that, us, we, our. A sentence of «The
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 183

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Good luck to every sergeant, then, that lets us pick our road; Bad luck to all the driver-men that cannot pack a load: For we can wriggle and climb, my lads, and turn up everywhere, Oh, it’s our delight on a mountain height, with a leg or two to spare!

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**Who acts:** that, us, we, our · **What happens:** let, pick, not pack, wriggle, climb, turn up · **To what, where:** us, road, driver men, lads

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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 (that, us, we, our), 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:pg236:20:183
# text = Good luck to every sergeant, then, that lets us pick our road; Bad luck to all the driver-men that cannot pack a load: For we can wriggle and climb, my lads, and turn up everywhere, Oh, it’s our delight on a mountain height, with a leg or two to spare!
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	sergeant	sergeant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	pack	pack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	49	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
50	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	appos	_	_
60	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	59	conj	_	_
62	to	to	PART	TO	_	63	mark	_	_
63	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | that | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pick** | infinitive | us *not said here* | our road |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **pack** | can |  | all driver men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wriggle** | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **climb** | infinitive | we *not said here* | my lads |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **turn up** | present | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **spare** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **delight** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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