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title: “By the Bull that bought me,” said Mowgli to himself, “but all this… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “By the Bull that bought me,” said Mowgli to himself, “but all this talking is like another looking-over by the Pack! Who acts: Bull, Mowgli, talking. 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 173

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“By the Bull that bought me,” said Mowgli to himself, “but all this talking is like another looking-over by the Pack!

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**Who acts:** Bull, Mowgli, talking · **What happens:** buy, say, look · **To what, where:** Mowgli · **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 (Bull, Mowgli, talking), 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:pg236:7:173
# text = “By the Bull that bought me,” said Mowgli to himself, “but all this talking is like another looking-over by the Pack!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
23	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	over	over	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** *in a quote* | past | the Bull |  | Mowgli |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Mowgli |  | Mowgli |  |  | by the Bull | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | present · progressive | all talking |  |  |  |  | by the Pack; over *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by pack=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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