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title: “Bandar-log,” said the voice of Kaa at last, “can ye stir foot or ha… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Bandar-log,” said the voice of Kaa at last, “can ye stir foot or hand without my order? Who acts: Bandar log, ye, my. 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 60

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“Bandar-log,” said the voice of Kaa at last, “can ye stir foot or hand without my order?

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**Who acts:** Bandar log, ye, my · **What happens:** say, stir, order · **To what, where:** voice, last, foot · **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 (Bandar log, ye, my), 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:pg236:7:60
# text = “Bandar-log,” said the voice of Kaa at last, “can ye stir foot or hand without my order?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bandar	bandar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
19	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Bandar log | the voice of Kaa |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |
| 2 | **stir** *in a quote* | can | ye | foot or hand |  |  |  | without my order | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus foot=Experiencer |
| 3 | **order** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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