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title: “To think of one so young remembering the Master Word for the birds… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “To think of one so young remembering the Master Word for the birds too while he was being pulled across trees!” Who acts: trees. 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 168

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“To think of one so young remembering the Master Word for the birds too while he was being pulled across trees!”

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**Who acts:** trees · **What happens:** think, remember, pull · **To what, where:** Master Word, word

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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 (trees), 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:pg236:5:168
# text = “To think of one so young remembering the Master Word for the birds too while he was being pulled across trees!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Word	Word	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of one | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remember** *in a quote* | gerund |  | the Master Word |  |  |  | for the birds | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **pull** *in a quote* | past · passive | trees | word |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent subject=Result |

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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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