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title: To do Buldeo justice, if he had been ten years younger he would have… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To do Buldeo justice, if he had been ten years younger he would have taken his chance with Akela had he met the wolf in the woods, but a wolf who obeyed the orders of this boy who had private wars with man-eating tigers was not a common animal. Who acts: Akela, war, wolf, boy. A sentence of «The Jun
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 106

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To do Buldeo justice, if he had been ten years younger he would have taken his chance with Akela had he met the wolf in the woods, but a wolf who obeyed the orders of this boy who had private wars with man-eating tigers was not a common animal.

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**Who acts:** Akela, war, wolf, boy, orders · **What happens:** do, take, have, meet, obey, eat · **To what, where:** Buldeo justice, war, wolf, woods, private wars, common animal

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Akela, war, wolf, boy), 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:pg236:9:106
# text = To do Buldeo justice, if he had been ten years younger he would have taken his chance with Akela had he met the wolf in the woods, but a wolf who obeyed the orders of this boy who had private wars with man-eating tigers was not a common animal.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
3	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
10	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	advcl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	Akela	Akela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	amod	_	_
48	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | Buldeo justice |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | would · past · perfect · passive |  | war |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme chance=Destination |
| 3 | **have** | past | Akela |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **meet** | past | war | the wolf |  | the woods |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **obey** | past | a wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | past | this boy | private wars |  |  |  | with eating tigers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient |
| 7 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **not** **is a** | past | the orders of this boy | a common animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **chance** |  | war |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **order** |  |  | this boy |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=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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