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title: So he looked up at the sky for a minute and said solemnly: “What the… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he looked up at the sky for a minute and said solemnly: “What the jungle has taken the jungle has restored. Who acts: priest. 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 171

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So he looked up at the sky for a minute and said solemnly: “What the jungle has taken the jungle has restored.

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**Who acts:** priest · **What happens:** look up, say, take, restore · **To what, where:** jungle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (priest), 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:pg236:7:171
# text = So he looked up at the sky for a minute and said solemnly: “What the jungle has taken the jungle has restored.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** | past | priest |  |  |  | minute | at the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | priest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | solemnly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the jungle |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme what=Destination |
| 4 | **restore** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the jungle |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |

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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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