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title: The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later,… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches. Who acts: real reason, white men. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1, with its
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 65

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The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.

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**Who acts:** real reason, white men · **What happens:** be, arrive

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (real reason, white men), 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:pg236:1:65
# text = The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	killing	killing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	gongs	gong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	rockets	rocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the real reason for this |  |  |  |  | mean, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** |  | white men on elephants |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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