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title: “By the Broken Lock that freed me,” said Bagheera, when twilight had… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “By the Broken Lock that freed me,” said Bagheera, when twilight had fallen, “thou art no slow goer!” Who acts: Broken Lock, Bagheera, twilight. 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 183

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“By the Broken Lock that freed me,” said Bagheera, when twilight had fallen, “thou art no slow goer!”

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**Who acts:** Broken Lock, Bagheera, twilight · **What happens:** break, free, say, fall · **To what, where:** Bagheera · **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 (Broken Lock, Bagheera, twilight), 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:pg236:5:183
# text = “By the Broken Lock that freed me,” said Bagheera, when twilight had fallen, “thou art no slow goer!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	Lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	freed	free	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	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	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
15	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	goer	goer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **free** *in a quote* | past | the Broken Lock | Bagheera |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Bagheera |  |  |  |  | by the Broken Lock | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | past · perfect | twilight |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «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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