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title: “Baloo must be at hand; Bagheera would not have come alone,” Mowgli… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Baloo must be at hand; Bagheera would not have come alone,” Mowgli thought. Who acts: Baloo, Bagheera, Mowgli. 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 69

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“Baloo must be at hand; Bagheera would not have come alone,” Mowgli thought.

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**Who acts:** Baloo, Bagheera, Mowgli · **What happens:** be, not come, think · **To what, where:** hand · **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 (Baloo, Bagheera, Mowgli), 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:pg236:6:69
# text = “Baloo must be at hand; Bagheera would not have come alone,” Mowgli thought.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Baloo	baloo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
16	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | must | Baloo |  |  | hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | would · perfect | Bagheera |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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