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title: Even Baloo, half smothered under the monkeys on the edge of the terr… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Even Baloo, half smothered under the monkeys on the edge of the terrace, could not help chuckling as he heard the Black Panther asking for help. Who acts: Baloo, Black Panther. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 88

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Even Baloo, half smothered under the monkeys on the edge of the terrace, could not help chuckling as he heard the Black Panther asking for help.

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**Who acts:** Baloo, Black Panther · **What happens:** smother, not help, chuckle, hear, ask · **To what, where:** Baloo, Black Panther

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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, Black Panther), 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:pg236:6:88
# text = Even Baloo, half smothered under the monkeys on the edge of the terrace, could not help chuckling as he heard the Black Panther asking for help.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	advmod	_	_
5	smothered	smother	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	terrace	terrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	chuckling	chuckle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smother** | participle |  | Baloo *not said here* |  |  |  | under the monkeys on the edge of the terrace; half *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **help** | could | Baloo |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **chuckle** *not said to happen* | gerund | Baloo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | past | Baloo | the Black Panther |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer panther=Stimulus |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the Black Panther *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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