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title: He is not of our tribe, being footless--and with most evil eyes,” sa… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He is not of our tribe, being footless--and with most evil eyes,” said Bagheera. Who acts: whisper, Bagheera. 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 65

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He is not of our tribe, being footless--and with most evil eyes,” said Bagheera.

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**Who acts:** whisper, Bagheera · **What happens:** not be, be, say · **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 (whisper, Bagheera), 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:pg236:5:65
# text = He is not of our tribe, being footless--and with most evil eyes,” said Bagheera.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
9	footless	footless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | whisper |  |  |  |  | of our tribe | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | whisper *not said here* |  |  |  |  | footless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Bagheera |  |  |  |  | with most evil eyes | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with eye=Manner |

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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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