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title: A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet. Who acts: fall, Mowgli, Baloo. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 60

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A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet.

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**Who acts:** fall, Mowgli, Baloo · **What happens:** train, bruise, be, fall, teach, land · **To what, where:** trained boy, Baloo, Mowgli, feet

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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 (fall, Mowgli, Baloo), 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:pg236:6:60
# text = A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	bruised	bruise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bruise** | would · perfect · passive |  | a trained boy |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the fall |  |  |  |  | for a good fifteen feet | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | Baloo | Mowgli |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** | to-infinitive | Baloo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **land** | past | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  | Mowgli's feet |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination |

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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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