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title: It means, translated, “Give me leave to hunt here because I am hungr… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It means, translated, “Give me leave to hunt here because I am hungry.” Who acts: stranger, Baloo. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 14

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It means, translated, “Give me leave to hunt here because I am hungry.”

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**Who acts:** stranger, Baloo · **What happens:** mean, translate, give, leave, hunt, be · **To what, where:** Baloo · **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 (stranger, Baloo), 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:pg236:4:14
# text = It means, translated, “Give me leave to hunt here because I am hungry.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | stranger |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **translate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | Baloo |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hunt** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Baloo |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

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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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