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title: Then he stretched out his arms, and yawned in the face of the Counci… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 109

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Then he stretched out his arms, and yawned in the face of the Council; but he was furious with rage and sorrow, for, wolflike, the wolves had never told him how they hated him.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli, wolves · **What happens:** stretch out, yawn, be, not tell, hate · **To what, where:** arms, wolves, Mowgli · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, wolves), 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:pg236:3:109
# text = Then he stretched out his arms, and yawned in the face of the Council; but he was furious with rage and sorrow, for, wolflike, the wolves had never told him how they hated him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	yawned	yawn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	wolflike	wolflike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	parataxis	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch out** | past | Mowgli | Mowgli's arms |  |  | then |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 2 | **yawn** | participle | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the face of the Council | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | with rage and sorrow; furious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the wolves | Mowgli |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
| 6 | **hate** | past | wolves *= wolf* | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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