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title: Kaa, we owe thee, I think, our lives--Bagheera and I.” — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Kaa, we owe thee, I think, our lives--Bagheera and I.” Who acts: we, I. 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 4

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Kaa, we owe thee, I think, our lives--Bagheera and I.”

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**Who acts:** we, I · **What happens:** owe, think · **To what, where:** thee, lives

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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, I), 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:pg236:7:4
# text = Kaa, we owe thee, I think, our lives--Bagheera and I.”
1	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	owe	owe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **owe** | present | we | thee |  |  |  | Kaa *vocative* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | our lives |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot life=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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