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title: Luckily, the Law of the Jungle had taught him to keep his temper, fo… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Luckily, the Law of the Jungle had taught him to keep his temper, for in the jungle life and food depend on keeping your temper; but when they made fun of him because he would not play games or fly kites, or because he mispronounced some word, only the knowledge that it was unsportsmanlike to kill l
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 32

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Luckily, the Law of the Jungle had taught him to keep his temper, for in the jungle life and food depend on keeping your temper; but when they made fun of him because he would not play games or fly kites, or because he mispronounced some word, only the knowledge that it was unsportsmanlike to kill little naked cubs kept him from picking them up and breaking them in two.

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**Who acts:** food, children, Mowgli, it, knowledge, your · **What happens:** teach, keep, depend, make, not play, fly · **To what, where:** Law, Mowgli, temper, fun, games, kites

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food, children, Mowgli, it), 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:pg236:8:32
# text = Luckily, the Law of the Jungle had taught him to keep his temper, for in the jungle life and food depend on keeping your temper; but when they made fun of him because he would not play games or fly kites, or because he mispronounced some word, only the knowledge that it was unsportsmanlike to kill little naked cubs kept him from picking them up and breaking them in two.
1	Luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	depend	depend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
24	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
33	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	_
36	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
41	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
44	kites	kite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	mispronounced	mispronounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
50	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	det	_	_
51	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	only	only	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nsubj	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
59	unsportsmanlike	unsportsmanlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	appos	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	csubj	_	_
62	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
63	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obj	_	_
65	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
66	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	obj	_	_
67	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	68	mark	_	_
68	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	65	advcl	_	_
69	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	obj	_	_
70	up	up	ADP	RP	_	68	compound:prt	_	_
71	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
72	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	68	conj	_	_
73	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	72	obj	_	_
74	in	in	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
75	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	72	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | the Law of the Jungle | Mowgli |  |  | luckily *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | Mowgli's temper |  |  |  | for the jungle life and food | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Theme |
| 3 | **depend** | present | food *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | gerund | food *not said here* | your temper |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | children *= child* | fun of Mowgli |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |
| 6 | **not** **play** | would | Mowgli | games |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 7 | **fly** | infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* | kites |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kite=Theme |
| 8 | **mispronounce** | past | Mowgli | some word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | unsportsmanlike *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | little naked cubs |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Theme |
| 11 | **keep** | past | the knowledge | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 12 | **pick up** | gerund | the knowledge *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 13 | **break** | gerund | the knowledge *not said here* | children *= child* |  | two |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
| 14 | **temper** |  | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 15 | **temper** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «feeling 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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