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title: Kaa said nothing, but, strive as Bagheera might, the huge Rock-pytho… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Kaa said nothing, but, strive as Bagheera might, the huge Rock-python held level with him. Who acts: Kaa. 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 181

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Kaa said nothing, but, strive as Bagheera might, the huge Rock-python held level with him.

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**Who acts:** Kaa · **What happens:** say, strive, hold · **To what, where:** nothing, python held level · **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 (Kaa), 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:pg236:5:181
# text = Kaa said nothing, but, strive as Bagheera might, the huge Rock-python held level with him.
1	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	strive	strive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	python	python	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Kaa | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 2 | **strive** | infinitive | Kaa *not said here* | python held level with Kaa |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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