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title: This is wilder work than driving black-buck. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This is wilder work than driving black-buck. Who acts: This, wilder work. 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 20

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This is wilder work than driving black-buck.

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**Who acts:** This, wilder work · **What happens:** be, drive · **To what, where:** wilder work, black buck

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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 (This, wilder work), 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:pg236:9:20
# text = This is wilder work than driving black-buck.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	wilder	wild	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	buck	buck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | wilder work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive** | gerund | wilder work *not said here* | black buck |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme buck=Trajectory |

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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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