--- title: “I heard some news from Ikki (his quills make him presumptuous) of a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: “I heard some news from Ikki (his quills make him presumptuous) of a man-thing that was entered into a wolf pack, but I did not believe. Who acts: Bagheera, quills. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bagheera, quills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:5:115 # text = “I heard some news from Ikki (his quills make him presumptuous) of a man-thing that was entered into a wolf pack, but I did not believe. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Ikki Ikki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 quills quill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 presumptuous presumptuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 entered enter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | past | Bagheera | some news | | Ikki | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent news=Topic from ikki=Source | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Ikki's quills | news | | | | presumptuous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | | 3 | **enter** *in a quote* | past · passive | | a man thing | | a wolf pack | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | | 4 | **not** **believe** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Bagheera | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/5/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/5/116/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/5/)