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title: “Worm--worm--earth-worm,” said Bagheera, “as well as other things wh… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Worm--worm--earth-worm,” said Bagheera, “as well as other things which I cannot now say for shame.” Who acts: 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 134

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“Worm--worm--earth-worm,” said Bagheera, “as well as other things which I cannot now say for shame.”

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**Who acts:** Worm · **What happens:** say, not say · **To what, where:** other things · **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 (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:pg236:5:134
# text = “Worm--worm--earth-worm,” said Bagheera, “as well as other things which I cannot now say for shame.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	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 | Worm and worm and earth worm | other things |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | Worm and worm and earth worm *= worm* | other things |  |  | now | for shame | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |

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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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