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title: All that day Mowgli sat in the cave tending his fire pot and dipping… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All that day Mowgli sat in the cave tending his fire pot and dipping dry branches into it to see how they looked. Who acts: Mowgli, branch, wolves. 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 35

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All that day Mowgli sat in the cave tending his fire pot and dipping dry branches into it to see how they looked.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli, branch, wolves · **What happens:** sit, tend, dip, see, look · **To what, where:** cave, fire pot, dry branches

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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, branch, 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:pg236:3:35
# text = All that day Mowgli sat in the cave tending his fire pot and dipping dry branches into it to see how they looked.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	tending	tend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	dipping	dip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
15	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Mowgli |  |  | the cave | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location |
| 2 | **tend** | gerund | Mowgli *not said here* | Mowgli's fire pot |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |
| 3 | **dip** | gerund | Mowgli *not said here* | dry branches |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | branch |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **look** | past | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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