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title: Now, if I had a full meal for every dog I’ve kicked across the parad… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, if I had a full meal for every dog I’ve kicked across the parade-ground I should be as fat as Two Tails nearly.” 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 59

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Now, if I had a full meal for every dog I’ve kicked across the parade-ground I should be as fat as Two Tails nearly.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** kick, be · **To what, where:** I, parade ground

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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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**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:pg236:20:59
# text = Now, if I had a full meal for every dog I’ve kicked across the parade-ground I should be as fat as Two Tails nearly.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	kicked	kick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	across	across	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	parade	parade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	Tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | past · passive |  | I |  | the parade ground | now | nearly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | should | I |  |  |  |  | as Two Tails; fat *property* | tree rules |

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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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