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title: I remember now--if it is not a dream--how, before I was a Wolf, I la… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I remember now--if it is not a dream--how, before I was a Wolf, I lay beside the Red Flower, and it was warm and pleasant.” Who acts: I, No.. 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 34

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I remember now--if it is not a dream--how, before I was a Wolf, I lay beside the Red Flower, and it was warm and pleasant.”

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**Who acts:** I, No. · **What happens:** remember, not be, be, lay · **To what, where:** dream, Red Flower

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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 (I, No.), 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:pg236:3:34
# text = I remember now--if it is not a dream--how, before I was a Wolf, I lay beside the Red Flower, and it was warm and pleasant.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
22	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
25	Flower	Flower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | No. | a dream |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  | before a Wolf |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay** | present | I |  |  | the Red Flower |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside flower=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | past | No. |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | No. *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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