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title: Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas--the Bu… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas--the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude, took up the cry, and--so Limmershin told me--for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet. Who acts:
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 123

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Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas--the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude, took up the cry, and--so Limmershin told me--for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.

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**Who acts:** Puffins, Chickies, Limmershin, you · **What happens:** look, be, take up, tell, not hear, fire · **To what, where:** cry, me, gun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Puffins, Chickies, Limmershin, you), 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:pg236:11:123
# text = Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas--the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude, took up the cry, and--so Limmershin told me--for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.
1	Naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Chickies	Chickie	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Gooverooskies	Gooveroosky	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Epatkas	Epatkas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Burgomaster	Burgomaster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Gulls	Gull	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Kittiwakes	kittiwake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Puffins	Puffin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
32	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	Limmershin	Limmershin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
42	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl:unmarked	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
49	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	52	advmod	_	_
51	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux	_	_
52	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	ccomp	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	acl	_	_
56	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Walrus	Walrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	obl:agent	_	_
58	Islet	Islet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present · progressive | the Puffins |  |  |  |  | for a chance; always *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for chance=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the Puffins *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take up** | past | the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas and the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins | the cry |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Limmershin |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **hear** | could · perfect | you | a gun |  |  | minute |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer gun=Stimulus |
| 6 | **fire** | participle |  | a gun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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