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title: But whenever they found a sick wolf, or a wounded tiger, or bear, th… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But whenever they found a sick wolf, or a wounded tiger, or bear, the monkeys would torment him, and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed. Who acts: monkeys. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4, with its dependency 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 119

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But whenever they found a sick wolf, or a wounded tiger, or bear, the monkeys would torment him, and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed.

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**Who acts:** monkeys · **What happens:** find, torment, throw, notice · **To what, where:** sick wolf, Bear, sticks, beast, hope

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkeys), 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:pg236:4:119
# text = But whenever they found a sick wolf, or a wounded tiger, or bear, the monkeys would torment him, and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	torment	torment	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
38	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | monkeys *= monkey* | a sick wolf |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic |
| 2 | **torment** | would | the monkeys | Bear |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **throw** | would | the monkeys *not said here* | sticks and nuts |  | any beast |  | for fun and the hope | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stick=Theme at beast=Destination |
| 4 | **notice** | gerund · passive |  | the hope *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |

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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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