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title: Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a panther’s point of v… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a panther’s point of view (they would hardly have waked one of his own cubs), but for a seven-year-old boy they amounted to as severe a beating as you could wish to avoid. Who acts: Bagheera, you, panther. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipli
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 104

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Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a panther’s point of view (they would hardly have waked one of his own cubs), but for a seven-year-old boy they amounted to as severe a beating as you could wish to avoid.

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**Who acts:** Bagheera, you, panther · **What happens:** give, wake, amount, wish, avoid, point · **To what, where:** dozen love taps, head, point, one, beating, view

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bagheera, you, 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:pg236:7:104
# text = Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a panther’s point of view (they would hardly have waked one of his own cubs), but for a seven-year-old boy they amounted to as severe a beating as you could wish to avoid.
1	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	6	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	taps	tap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	waked	wake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
33	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	amounted	amount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	xcomp	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	obl	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Bagheera | dozen love taps | head | a panther's point of view |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tap=Theme |
| 2 | **wake** | would · perfect | Bagheera | one of Panther's own cubs |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 3 | **amount** | past | Bagheera | a beating |  |  |  | for a old boy; as severe | tree rules |
| 4 | **wish** | could | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **avoid** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **point** |  | a panther | view |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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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