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title: Here Baloo rubbed his faded brown shoulder against the Panther, and… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here Baloo rubbed his faded brown shoulder against the Panther, and they went off to look for Kaa the Rock Python. Who acts: Baloo. 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 73

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Here Baloo rubbed his faded brown shoulder against the Panther, and they went off to look for Kaa the Rock Python.

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**Who acts:** Baloo · **What happens:** rub, fade, go off, look · **To what, where:** faded brown shoulder, Panther

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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 (Baloo), 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:pg236:5:73
# text = Here Baloo rubbed his faded brown shoulder against the Panther, and they went off to look for Kaa the Rock Python.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Rock	Rock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Python	Python	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | past | Baloo | Bagheera's faded brown shoulder |  | the Panther; here |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme against panther=Destination |
| 2 | **fade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **go off** | past | Baloo |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | Baloo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Kaa | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for kaa=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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