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title: He has kept our Law”; and at last the seniors of the Pack thundered:… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He has kept our Law”; and at last the seniors of the Pack thundered: “Let the Dead Wolf speak.” Who acts: last, Dead Wolf. 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 54

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He has kept our Law”; and at last the seniors of the Pack thundered: “Let the Dead Wolf speak.”

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**Who acts:** last, Dead Wolf · **What happens:** keep, thunder, let, speak · **To what, where:** yell, Dead Wolf · **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 (last, Dead Wolf), 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:pg236:3:54
# text = He has kept our Law”; and at last the seniors of the Pack thundered: “Let the Dead Wolf speak.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj:outer	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	seniors	senior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Pack	Pack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	thundered	thunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Dead	Dead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · perfect · passive |  | yell |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme law=Attribute |
| 2 | **thunder** *in a quote* | past | last |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | the Dead Wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | the Dead Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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