--- title: “I do not wish to leave the jungle, and I do not know what this is. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: “I do not wish to leave the jungle, and I do not know what this is. Who acts: Mowgli, this. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/3/153/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/3/) / 153 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 153 “I do not wish to leave the jungle, and I do not know what this is. **Who acts:** Mowgli, this · **What happens:** not wish, leave, not know, be · **To what, where:** jungle · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:3:153 # text = “I do not wish to leave the jungle, and I do not know what this is. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 jungle jungle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 ccomp _ _ 17 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **wish** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Mowgli | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **leave** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* | the jungle | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jungle=Theme | | 3 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Mowgli | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/3/152/) - next →: [sentence 154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/3/154/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/3/)