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title: What would the jungle think if I, the Black Panther, curled myself u… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: What would the jungle think if I, the Black Panther, curled myself up like Ikki the Porcupine, and howled?” Who acts: jungle, I, Black Panther. 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 51

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What would the jungle think if I, the Black Panther, curled myself up like Ikki the Porcupine, and howled?”

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**Who acts:** jungle, I, Black Panther · **What happens:** think, panther, curl up, howl · **To what, where:** myself · **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 (jungle, I, Black Panther), 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:pg236:5:51
# text = What would the jungle think if I, the Black Panther, curled myself up like Ikki the Porcupine, and howled?”
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Ikki	Ikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Porcupine	Porcupine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	howled	howl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | would | the jungle |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **panther** *a condition, not said to happen* |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **curl up** | participle | the Black Panther *not said here* | myself |  |  |  | like Ikki | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **howl** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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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