---
title: Baloo will surely beat me, but that is better than chasing silly ros… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Baloo will surely beat me, but that is better than chasing silly rose leaves with the Bandar-log.” Who acts: Baloo, that. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/23/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/) / 23

# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 23

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Baloo will surely beat me, but that is better than chasing silly rose leaves with the Bandar-log.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Baloo, that · **What happens:** beat, be, chase, rise · **To what, where:** me, leaves

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Baloo, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg236:6:23
# text = Baloo will surely beat me, but that is better than chasing silly rose leaves with the Bandar-log.”
1	Baloo	baloo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
13	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | future | Baloo | me |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **chase** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | silly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rise** | past | that *not said here* | leaves |  |  |  | with the Bandar log | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/22/)
- next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/24/)
- ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/)