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title: “Master Words for which people?” said Mowgli, delighted to show off. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Master Words for which people?” said Mowgli, delighted to show off. Who acts: people. 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 40

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“Master Words for which people?” said Mowgli, delighted to show off.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** say, show off · **To what, where:** Master Words · **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), 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:pg236:4:40
# text = “Master Words for which people?” said Mowgli, delighted to show off.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | which people | Master Words |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show off** | to-infinitive | which people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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