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title: “Unless and until they drop him from the branches in sport, or kill… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Unless and until they drop him from the branches in sport, or kill him out of idleness, I have no fear for the man-cub. Who acts: branches, jungle. 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 54

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“Unless and until they drop him from the branches in sport, or kill him out of idleness, I have no fear for the man-cub.

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**Who acts:** branches, jungle · **What happens:** drop, kill, have · **To what, where:** jungle, branches, idleness, fear

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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 (branches, jungle), 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:pg236:5:54
# text = “Unless and until they drop him from the branches in sport, or kill him out of idleness, I have no fear for the man-cub.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Unless	unless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	idleness	idleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** *in a quote* | present | branches *= branch* | jungle |  | the branches in sport |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme from branch=Destination |
| 2 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive | branches *= branch* *not said here* | jungle |  | idleness |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme out idleness=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the jungle *= jungle* | no fear |  |  |  | for the man cub | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |

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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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