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title: “The best and wisest and boldest of man-cubs--my own pupil, who shal… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “The best and wisest and boldest of man-cubs--my own pupil, who shall make the name of Baloo famous through all the jungles; and besides, I--we--love him, Kaa.” Who acts: own pupil, Ikki. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 119

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“The best and wisest and boldest of man-cubs--my own pupil, who shall make the name of Baloo famous through all the jungles; and besides, I--we--love him, Kaa.”

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**Who acts:** own pupil, Ikki · **What happens:** make, love, name · **To what, where:** name, pupil, Baloo

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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 (own pupil, Ikki), 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:pg236:5:119
# text = “The best and wisest and boldest of man-cubs--my own pupil, who shall make the name of Baloo famous through all the jungles; and besides, I--we--love him, Kaa.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	boldest	bold	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	jungles	jungle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | shall | my own pupil | the name of Baloo |  |  |  | famous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Product |
| 2 | **love** *in a quote* | present | Ikki | pupil |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **name** *in a quote* |  |  | Baloo |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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