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title: Not one small wolfling has ever come back to thank old Baloo for his… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not one small wolfling has ever come back to thank old Baloo for his teachings. Who acts: one small wolfling, wolfling. 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 45

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Not one small wolfling has ever come back to thank old Baloo for his teachings.

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**Who acts:** one small wolfling, wolfling · **What happens:** come back, thank, teach · **To what, where:** old Baloo

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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 (one small wolfling, wolfling), 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:pg236:4:45
# text = Not one small wolfling has ever come back to thank old Baloo for his teachings.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wolfling	wolfling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	teachings	teaching	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **come back** | present | one small wolfling |  |  |  | ever |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | one small wolfling *not said here* |  | old Baloo |  |  | for wolfling's teachings | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent baloo=Theme for teaching=Attribute |
| 3 | **teach** |  | wolfling |  |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=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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