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title: “They are not unlike the Pack, these brothers of thine,” said Akela,… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “They are not unlike the Pack, these brothers of thine,” said Akela, sitting down composedly. Who acts: stones, Pack. 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 137

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“They are not unlike the Pack, these brothers of thine,” said Akela, sitting down composedly.

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**Who acts:** stones, Pack · **What happens:** not be, say, sit down · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (stones, Pack), 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:pg236:9:137
# text = “They are not unlike the Pack, these brothers of thine,” said Akela, sitting down composedly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Pack	Pack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Akela	Akela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	advcl	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	composedly	composedly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | stones *= stone* |  |  |  |  | unlike the Pack and this brothers of thine | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Pack and this brothers of thine |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit down** | gerund | the Pack and this brothers of thine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | composedly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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