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title: “Others also,” said Bagheera, licking his lips and looking at the mo… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Others also,” said Bagheera, licking his lips and looking at the monkey-dead on the terrace and round the tank. Who acts: Others. 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 23

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“Others also,” said Bagheera, licking his lips and looking at the monkey-dead on the terrace and round the tank.

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**Who acts:** Others · **What happens:** say, lick, look, round · **To what, where:** lips, tank · **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 (Others), 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:pg236:7:23
# text = “Others also,” said Bagheera, licking his lips and looking at the monkey-dead on the terrace and round the tank.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	licking	lick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	terrace	terrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	round	round	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lick** | gerund | Others *not said here* | other's lips |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | Others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the terrace; at the monkey dead | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dead=Theme |
| 4 | **round** | infinitive | Others *not said here* | the tank |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tank=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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