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title: Then, too, Mowgli was taught the Strangers’ Hunting Call, which must… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, too, Mowgli was taught the Strangers’ Hunting Call, which must be repeated aloud till it is answered, whenever one of the Jungle-People hunts outside his own grounds. Who acts: Strangers, one. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4, with its dependency tree
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 13

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Then, too, Mowgli was taught the Strangers’ Hunting Call, which must be repeated aloud till it is answered, whenever one of the Jungle-People hunts outside his own grounds.

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**Who acts:** Strangers, one · **What happens:** teach, ', hunt, repeat, answer · **To what, where:** Mowgli, Hunting Call, stranger, own grounds · **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 (Strangers, one), 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:pg236:4:13
# text = Then, too, Mowgli was taught the Strangers’ Hunting Call, which must be repeated aloud till it is answered, whenever one of the Jungle-People hunts outside his own grounds.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Strangers	Stranger	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	Hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	Call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
18	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	WRB	_	31	mark	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
31	hunts	hunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | Mowgli |  |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **'** | past | the Strangers | Hunting Call |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hunt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **repeat** | must · passive |  | Hunting Call |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | stranger |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 6 | **hunt** | present | one of the Jungle People |  |  | Mowgli's own grounds |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent outside grounds=Location |

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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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