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title: It was sorcery, magic of the worst kind, thought Buldeo, and he wond… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was sorcery, magic of the worst kind, thought Buldeo, and he wondered whether the amulet round his neck would protect him. Who acts: tiger, Buldeo, amulet. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 107

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It was sorcery, magic of the worst kind, thought Buldeo, and he wondered whether the amulet round his neck would protect him.

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**Who acts:** tiger, Buldeo, amulet · **What happens:** be, think, wonder, protect · **To what, where:** sorcery magic, Buldeo

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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 (tiger, Buldeo, amulet), 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:pg236:9:107
# text = It was sorcery, magic of the worst kind, thought Buldeo, and he wondered whether the amulet round his neck would protect him.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	sorcery	sorcery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	amulet	amulet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	round	round	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | tiger | sorcery magic |  |  |  | of the worst kind | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | Buldeo |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot buldeo=Theme |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | Buldeo |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **protect** | would | the amulet round Buldeo's neck |  | Buldeo |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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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