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title: One of the monkeys made a speech and told his companions that Mowgli… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the monkeys made a speech and told his companions that Mowgli’s capture marked a new thing in the history of the Bandar-log, for Mowgli was going to show them how to weave sticks and canes together as a protection against rain and cold. Who acts: One, capture, Mowgli. A sentence of «The Jungl
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 11

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One of the monkeys made a speech and told his companions that Mowgli’s capture marked a new thing in the history of the Bandar-log, for Mowgli was going to show them how to weave sticks and canes together as a protection against rain and cold.

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**Who acts:** One, capture, Mowgli · **What happens:** make, tell, mark, go, show, weave · **To what, where:** speech, companions, new thing, history, monkeys, sticks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, capture, Mowgli), 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:pg236:6:11
# text = One of the monkeys made a speech and told his companions that Mowgli’s capture marked a new thing in the history of the Bandar-log, for Mowgli was going to show them how to weave sticks and canes together as a protection against rain and cold.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	iobj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	capture	capture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	weave	weave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
39	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	canes	cane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
42	together	together	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
46	against	against	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | One | a speech |  |  |  | of the monkeys | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | One *not said here* |  | Mowgli's companions |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent companion=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **mark** | past | Mowgli's capture | a new thing |  | the history of the Bandar log |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in history=Destination |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **show** | to-infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* | monkeys *= monkey* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **weave** | to-infinitive |  | sticks and canes |  |  |  | as a protection against rain; together *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Product |
| 7 | **capture** |  | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | nom capture «act transitive»: poss=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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