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title: “Up, when a man speaks, or I will set that coat ablaze!” — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Up, when a man speaks, or I will set that coat ablaze!” Who acts: man, Mowgli. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 135

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“Up, when a man speaks, or I will set that coat ablaze!”

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**Who acts:** man, Mowgli · **What happens:** speak up, set · **To what, where:** coat ablaze

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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 (man, Mowgli), 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:pg236:3:135
# text = “Up, when a man speaks, or I will set that coat ablaze!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ablaze	ablaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak up** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set** *in a quote* | future | Mowgli | that coat ablaze |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ablaze=Result |

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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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