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title: Of course Mowgli, as a woodcutter’s child, inherited all sorts of in… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course Mowgli, as a woodcutter’s child, inherited all sorts of instincts, and used to make little huts of fallen branches without thinking how he came to do it. Who acts: Mowgli. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 124

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Of course Mowgli, as a woodcutter’s child, inherited all sorts of instincts, and used to make little huts of fallen branches without thinking how he came to do it.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli · **What happens:** inherit, use, make, fall, think, come · **To what, where:** sorts, little huts, branch, instincts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mowgli), 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:pg236:4:124
# text = Of course Mowgli, as a woodcutter’s child, inherited all sorts of instincts, and used to make little huts of fallen branches without thinking how he came to do it.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	instincts	instinct	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
28	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inherit** | participle |  | all sorts of instincts |  |  |  | of Mowgli; as a woodcutter's child | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | little huts of fallen branches |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product |
| 4 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* | branch |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 8 | **sort** |  |  | instincts |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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