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title: “Why didst thou not warn the man-cub?” he roared to poor Baloo, who… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why didst thou not warn the man-cub?” he roared to poor Baloo, who had set off at a clumsy trot in the hope of overtaking the monkeys. Who acts: Bagheera, thou, hope. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 23

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“Why didst thou not warn the man-cub?” he roared to poor Baloo, who had set off at a clumsy trot in the hope of overtaking the monkeys.

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**Who acts:** Bagheera, thou, hope · **What happens:** not do, warn, roar, set off, overtake · **To what, where:** man cub, poor Baloo, clumsy trot, monkeys · **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 (Bagheera, thou, hope), 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:pg236:5:23
# text = “Why didst thou not warn the man-cub?” he roared to poor Baloo, who had set off at a clumsy trot in the hope of overtaking the monkeys.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
6	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	trot	trot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	overtaking	overtake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | past | Bagheera *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* *in a quote* | infinitive | thou | the man cub |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cub=Recipient |
| 3 | **roar** | past | Bagheera |  | poor Baloo |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to baloo=Recipient |
| 4 | **set off** | past · perfect · passive |  | poor Baloo |  | a clumsy trot |  | in the hope | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **overtake** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | the monkeys |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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