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title: Sometimes Bagheera the Black Panther would come lounging through the… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes Bagheera the Black Panther would come lounging through the jungle to see how his pet was getting on, and would purr with his head against a tree while Mowgli recited the day’s lesson to Baloo. Who acts: Bagheera, pet, Mowgli. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle B
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 9

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Sometimes Bagheera the Black Panther would come lounging through the jungle to see how his pet was getting on, and would purr with his head against a tree while Mowgli recited the day’s lesson to Baloo.

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**Who acts:** Bagheera, pet, Mowgli · **What happens:** come, lounge, see, get on, purr, recite · **To what, where:** jungle, tree, lesson, 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 (Bagheera, pet, 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:pg236:4:9
# text = Sometimes Bagheera the Black Panther would come lounging through the jungle to see how his pet was getting on, and would purr with his head against a tree while Mowgli recited the day’s lesson to Baloo.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
2	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	lounging	lounge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	purr	purr	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	recited	recite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | would | Bagheera |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lounge** | gerund | Bagheera *not said here* |  |  | the jungle |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through jungle=Location |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Bagheera *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **get on** | past · progressive | Panther's pet |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **purr** | would | Bagheera *not said here* |  |  | a tree |  | with Panther's head | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against tree=Location |
| 6 | **recite** | past | Mowgli | the day's lesson | Baloo |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic to baloo=Recipient |

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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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