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title: In the Cold Lairs the Monkey-People were not thinking of Mowgli’s fr… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Cold Lairs the Monkey-People were not thinking of Mowgli’s friends at all. Who acts: Monkey People. 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 189

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In the Cold Lairs the Monkey-People were not thinking of Mowgli’s friends at all.

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**Who acts:** Monkey People · **What happens:** not think · **To what, where:** Cold Lairs

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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 (Monkey People), 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:pg236:5:189
# text = In the Cold Lairs the Monkey-People were not thinking of Mowgli’s friends at all.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Lairs	lair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | the Monkey People |  |  | the Cold Lairs |  | of Mowgli's friends at all | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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