--- title: Sore, sleepy, and hungry as he was, Mowgli could not help laughing w… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Sore, sleepy, and hungry as he was, Mowgli could not help laughing when the Bandar-log began, twenty at a time, to tell him how great and wise and strong and gentle they were, and how foolish he was to wish to leave them. Who acts: wall, Mowgli, Bandar log, queens. 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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 (wall, Mowgli, Bandar log, queens), 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:pg236:6:29 # text = Sore, sleepy, and hungry as he was, Mowgli could not help laughing when the Bandar-log began, twenty at a time, to tell him how great and wise and strong and gentle they were, and how foolish he was to wish to leave them. 1 Sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 11 Mowgli Mowgli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 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 21 nsubj _ _ 21 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 ccomp _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 44 foolish foolish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 ccomp _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 51 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | wall | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **help** | could | Mowgli | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **laugh** *not said to happen* | gerund | Mowgli *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **begin** | past | the Bandar log | twenty at a time | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* | | wall | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | past | queens *= queen* | | | | | foolish *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | past | wall | | | | | wish *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | wall *not said here* | queens *= queen* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/30/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/)