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title: “Get the man-cub out of that trap; I can do no more,” Bagheera gasped. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Get the man-cub out of that trap; I can do no more,” Bagheera gasped. Who acts: Bagheera, Kaa. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 111

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“Get the man-cub out of that trap; I can do no more,” Bagheera gasped.

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**Who acts:** Bagheera, Kaa · **What happens:** get, do, gasp · **To what, where:** man cub, trap, more · **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 (Bagheera, Kaa), 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:pg236:6:111
# text = “Get the man-cub out of that trap; I can do no more,” Bagheera gasped.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
19	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gasped	gasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | Bagheera *not said here* | the man cub |  | that trap |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cub=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | can | Kaa | no more |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |
| 3 | **gasp** | past | Bagheera |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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