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title: “Tabaqui the Jackal must have bitten all these people,” he said to h… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Tabaqui the Jackal must have bitten all these people,” he said to himself, “and now they have madness. Who acts: Tabaqui, People. 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 38

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“Tabaqui the Jackal must have bitten all these people,” he said to himself, “and now they have madness.

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**Who acts:** Tabaqui, People · **What happens:** bite, say, have · **To what, where:** Tabaqui, madness · **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 (Tabaqui, People), 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:pg236:6:38
# text = “Tabaqui the Jackal must have bitten all these people,” he said to himself, “and now they have madness.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	madness	madness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** *in a quote* | must · perfect · passive |  | Tabaqui |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient people=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tabaqui |  | Tabaqui |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | People | madness |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent madness=Patient |

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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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