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title: By the rubbish in our wake, and the noble noise we make, Be sure, be… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By the rubbish in our wake, and the noble noise we make, Be sure, be sure, we’re going to do some splendid things! Who acts: we, noble noise. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 128

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By the rubbish in our wake, and the noble noise we make, Be sure, be sure, we’re going to do some splendid things!

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**Who acts:** we, noble noise · **What happens:** make, be, go, do · **To what, where:** noble noise, splendid things

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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 (we, noble noise), 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:pg236:7:128
# text = By the rubbish in our wake, and the noble noise we make, Be sure, be sure, we’re going to do some splendid things!
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wake	wake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’re	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
27	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | we | the noble noise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | the noble noise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | some splendid things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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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