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title: Therefore they followed Baloo and Bagheera and Mowgli through the ju… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore they followed Baloo and Bagheera and Mowgli through the jungle very quietly till it was time for the midday nap, and Mowgli, who was very much ashamed of himself, slept between the Panther and the Bear, resolving to have no more to do with the Monkey People. Who acts: People, leader, Mowgl
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 127

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Therefore they followed Baloo and Bagheera and Mowgli through the jungle very quietly till it was time for the midday nap, and Mowgli, who was very much ashamed of himself, slept between the Panther and the Bear, resolving to have no more to do with the Monkey People.

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**Who acts:** People, leader, Mowgli · **What happens:** follow, be, sleep, resolve, have, do · **To what, where:** Baloo, jungle, more

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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, leader, 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:pg236:4:127
# text = Therefore they followed Baloo and Bagheera and Mowgli through the jungle very quietly till it was time for the midday nap, and Mowgli, who was very much ashamed of himself, slept between the Panther and the Bear, resolving to have no more to do with the Monkey People.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
14	till	till	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	nap	nap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
24	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	much	much	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl:relcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
34	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
35	between	between	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	resolving	resolve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	46	det	_	_
46	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	obj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | People | Baloo and Bagheera and Mowgli |  | the jungle |  | quietly, therefore *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baloo=Theme through jungle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | leader |  |  |  | till time | for the midday nap | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | of Mowgli; ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sleep** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | between the Panther and the Bear | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **resolve** | gerund | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* | no more |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Monkey People | vn act-114-1 «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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