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title: This time, they said, they were really going to have a leader and be… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 126

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This time, they said, they were really going to have a leader and become the wisest people in the jungle--so wise that everyone else would notice and envy them.

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**Who acts:** People, everyone · **What happens:** say, go, have, become, notice, envy · **To what, where:** leader, wisest people, People · **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 (People, everyone), 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:pg236:4:126
# text = This time, they said, they were really going to have a leader and become the wisest people in the jungle--so wise that everyone else would notice and envy them.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	really	really	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	xcomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	_
28	else	else	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	csubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	envy	envy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | People |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | a leader |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Patient |
| 4 | **become** | infinitive | People *not said here* | the wisest people in the jungle |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **notice** | would | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **envy** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* | People |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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