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title: He lay as still as still, expecting every minute to see Mowgli turn… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He lay as still as still, expecting every minute to see Mowgli turn into a tiger too. Who acts: Buldeo, Mowgli. 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 108

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He lay as still as still, expecting every minute to see Mowgli turn into a tiger too.

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**Who acts:** Buldeo, Mowgli · **What happens:** lie, expect, see, turn · **To what, where:** Mowgli

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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 (Buldeo, Mowgli), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg236:1088`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:9:108
# text = He lay as still as still, expecting every minute to see Mowgli turn into a tiger too.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	still	still	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	still	still	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Buldeo |  |  |  |  | still *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **expect** | gerund | Buldeo *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Buldeo *not said here* | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn** | infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a tiger *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tiger=Result |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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