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title: “Footless, yellow earth-worm,” said Bagheera under his whiskers, as… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Footless, yellow earth-worm,” said Bagheera under his whiskers, as though he were trying to remember something. Who acts: Footless yellow earth worm, worm. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 101

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“Footless, yellow earth-worm,” said Bagheera under his whiskers, as though he were trying to remember something.

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**Who acts:** Footless yellow earth worm, worm · **What happens:** say, try, remember · **To what, where:** whiskers, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Footless yellow earth worm, worm), 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:pg236:5:101
# text = “Footless, yellow earth-worm,” said Bagheera under his whiskers, as though he were trying to remember something.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footless	footless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | Footless yellow earth worm |  |  | Bagheera's whiskers |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **try** | past · progressive | worm |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **remember** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | worm *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent something=Theme |

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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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