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title: But, as Baloo said to Bagheera, one day when Mowgli had been cuffed… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, as Baloo said to Bagheera, one day when Mowgli had been cuffed and run off in a temper, “A man’s cub is a man’s cub, and he must learn all the Law of the Jungle.” Who acts: Baloo, cub, Mowgli. 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 17

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But, as Baloo said to Bagheera, one day when Mowgli had been cuffed and run off in a temper, “A man’s cub is a man’s cub, and he must learn all the Law of the Jungle.”

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**Who acts:** Baloo, cub, Mowgli · **What happens:** say, cuff, run off, be, learn · **To what, where:** Bagheera, Mowgli, temper, cub, Law · **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 (Baloo, cub, 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:pg236:4:17
# text = But, as Baloo said to Bagheera, one day when Mowgli had been cuffed and run off in a temper, “A man’s cub is a man’s cub, and he must learn all the Law of the Jungle.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
12	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	cuffed	cuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	det:predet	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	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 | Baloo |  | Bagheera |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bagheera=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cuff** | past · perfect · passive |  | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **run off** | participle |  |  |  | a temper |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in temper=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a man's cub | a man's cub |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **learn** *in a quote* | must | Mowgli | all Law of the Jungle |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Topic |

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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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