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title: The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrel… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrels of a shotgun into Nag just behind the hood. Who acts: noise. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 94

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The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrels of a shotgun into Nag just behind the hood.

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**Who acts:** noise · **What happens:** waken, fire · **To what, where:** big man, barrels, Nag

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise), 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:pg236:14:94
# text = The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrels of a shotgun into Nag just behind the hood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	wakened	waken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	shotgun	shotgun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waken** | past · perfect · passive | the noise | the big man |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **fire** | past · perfect | the noise *not said here* | both barrels of a shotgun |  | Nag |  | behind the hood | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme into nag=Destination |

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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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