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title: Buldeo hobbled away to the village as fast as he could, looking back… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Buldeo hobbled away to the village as fast as he could, looking back over his shoulder in case Mowgli should change into something terrible. Who acts: Buldeo, looking. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 118

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Buldeo hobbled away to the village as fast as he could, looking back over his shoulder in case Mowgli should change into something terrible.

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**Who acts:** Buldeo, looking · **What happens:** hobble away, look back, change · **To what, where:** village, something

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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, looking), 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:pg236:9:118
# text = Buldeo hobbled away to the village as fast as he could, looking back over his shoulder in case Mowgli should change into something terrible.
1	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hobbled	hobble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	csubj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
19	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	fixed	_	_
20	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
25	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hobble away** | past | Buldeo |  |  | the village |  | away, fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination |
| 2 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | over Buldeo's shoulder in Mowgli | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | should | looking |  |  |  |  | into something *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into something=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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