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title: The great God Brahm put his mark upon all our people, when the first… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The great God Brahm put his mark upon all our people, when the first cobra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept. Who acts: great God Brahm, first cobra, cobra, Brahm. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 111

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The great God Brahm put his mark upon all our people, when the first cobra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept.

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**Who acts:** great God Brahm, first cobra, cobra, Brahm · **What happens:** put, spread, keep off, sleep, mark · **To what, where:** mark, hood, sun

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great God Brahm, first cobra, cobra, Brahm), 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:pg236:13:111
# text = The great God Brahm put his mark upon all our people, when the first cobra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Brahm	Brahm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	cobra	cobra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
25	Brahm	Brahm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the great God Brahm | Brahm's mark |  |  |  | upon our people | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme upon people=Destination |
| 2 | **spread** | past | the first cobra | Brahm's hood |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hood=Theme |
| 3 | **keep off** | to-infinitive | the first cobra *not said here* | the sun |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sun=Theme brahm=Attribute |
| 4 | **sleep** | past | cobra |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mark** |  | Brahm |  |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=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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