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title: This time, if I have any eye-sight, they have pecked down trouble fo… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This time, if I have any eye-sight, they have pecked down trouble for themselves, for Baloo is no fledgling and Bagheera can, as I know, kill more than goats.” Who acts: eyes, Baloo, I. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 19

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This time, if I have any eye-sight, they have pecked down trouble for themselves, for Baloo is no fledgling and Bagheera can, as I know, kill more than goats.”

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**Who acts:** eyes, Baloo, I · **What happens:** peck down, be, know, kill · **To what, where:** trouble, goats

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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 (eyes, Baloo, I), 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:pg236:5:19
# text = This time, if I have any eye-sight, they have pecked down trouble for themselves, for Baloo is no fledgling and Bagheera can, as I know, kill more than goats.”
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	pecked	peck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	fledgling	fledgling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
34	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	36	advmod	_	_
35	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peck down** | present · perfect | eyes *= eye* | trouble |  |  | time | for eyes *= eye* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Baloo |  |  |  |  | for no fledgling and Bagheera | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **kill** | present | I *not said here* | goats |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=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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