--- title: The first thing he did was to crawl inland, and there he met tens of… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: The first thing he did was to crawl inland, and there he met tens of thousands of babies of his own age, and they played together like puppies, went to sleep on the clean sand, and played again. Who acts: Matkah, first thing, things. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matkah, first thing, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:10:160 # text = The first thing he did was to crawl inland, and there he met tens of thousands of babies of his own age, and they played together like puppies, went to sleep on the clean sand, and played again. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 crawl crawl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 inland inland ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 28 together together ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 42 again again ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Matkah | the first thing *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | past | the first thing | | | | | crawl, inland *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **meet** | past | Matkah | tens of thousands of babies of Matkah's own age | | there | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Co-Agent | | 4 | **play** | past | things *= thing* | | | | | like puppies; together *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go** | past | things *= thing* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* | | | the clean sand | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **play** | past | things *= thing* *not said here* | | | | again | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/10/159/) - next →: [sentence 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/10/161/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/10/)