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title: The worth of a bull is little, but Bagheera’s honor is something tha… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The worth of a bull is little, but Bagheera’s honor is something that he will perhaps fight for,” said Bagheera in his gentlest voice. Who acts: worth, honor, bull, Bagheera. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 88

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The worth of a bull is little, but Bagheera’s honor is something that he will perhaps fight for,” said Bagheera in his gentlest voice.

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**Who acts:** worth, honor, bull, Bagheera · **What happens:** be, fight, say, honor · **To what, where:** something, gentlest voice · **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 (worth, honor, bull, Bagheera), 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:pg236:3:88
# text = The worth of a bull is little, but Bagheera’s honor is something that he will perhaps fight for,” said Bagheera in his gentlest voice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl	_	_
24	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	gentlest	gentle	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the worth of a bull |  |  |  |  | little *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Bagheera's honor | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fight** | future | bull |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Bagheera |  |  | bull's gentlest voice |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner |
| 5 | **honor** |  | Bagheera |  |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=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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