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title: So long as the boys keep with the herds they are safe, for not even… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So long as the boys keep with the herds they are safe, for not even the tiger will charge a mob of cattle. Who acts: boys, cattle, tiger. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 63

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So long as the boys keep with the herds they are safe, for not even the tiger will charge a mob of cattle.

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**Who acts:** boys, cattle, tiger · **What happens:** keep, be, charge · **To what, where:** herds, mob

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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 (boys, cattle, tiger), 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:pg236:8:63
# text = So long as the boys keep with the herds they are safe, for not even the tiger will charge a mob of cattle.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mob	mob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | the boys |  |  |  |  | with the herds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | cattle | the herds *not said here* |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **charge** | future | the tiger | a mob of cattle |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location mob=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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