---
title: Those nut-stealers and pickers of palm leaves have stolen away our m… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Those nut-stealers and pickers of palm leaves have stolen away our man-cub of whom thou hast perhaps heard.” Who acts: thou. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/5/114/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/5/) / 114

# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 114

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Those nut-stealers and pickers of palm leaves have stolen away our man-cub of whom thou hast perhaps heard.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** steal away, hear · **To what, where:** nut stealers

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg236:5:114
# text = Those nut-stealers and pickers of palm leaves have stolen away our man-cub of whom thou hast perhaps heard.”
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	stealers	stealer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	pickers	picker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nmod	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
20	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal away** | present · perfect · passive |  | that nut stealers and pickers of palm leaves |  |  |  | away *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary cub=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/5/113/)
- next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/5/115/)
- ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/5/)