--- title: “A blow more or less is nothing to thee, Bagheera or Baloo, but I--I… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: “A blow more or less is nothing to thee, Bagheera or Baloo, but I--I have to wait and wait for days in a wood-path and climb half a night on the mere chance of a young ape. Who acts: blow, Kaa, young ape. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blow, Kaa, young ape), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:5:93 # text = “A blow more or less is nothing to thee, Bagheera or Baloo, but I--I have to wait and wait for days in a wood-path and climb half a night on the mere chance of a young ape. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP TO _ 10 case _ _ 10 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Bagheera Bagheera PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Baloo Baloo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 -- -- PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 34 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 36 det:predet _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 mere mere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 ape ape NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a blow | nothing | | | | to thee | tree rules | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Kaa | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Kaa *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive | Kaa *not said here* | | | a wood path | day | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in path=Location | | 5 | **climb** *in a quote* | present | Kaa *not said here* | | | the mere chance of a young ape | night | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chance=Trajectory | | 6 | **chance** *in a quote* | | a young ape | | | | | | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/5/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/5/94/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/5/)