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title: He remembered pushing, with a big leather pad on his forehead, at a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He remembered pushing, with a big leather pad on his forehead, at a gun stuck in deep mud, and that was before the Afghan War of 1842, and he had not then come to his full strength. Who acts: Kala, that. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15, with its dependenc
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 123

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He remembered pushing, with a big leather pad on his forehead, at a gun stuck in deep mud, and that was before the Afghan War of 1842, and he had not then come to his full strength.

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**Who acts:** Kala, that · **What happens:** remember, push, be, not come · **To what, where:** full strength

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kala, that), 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:pg236:15:123
# text = He remembered pushing, with a big leather pad on his forehead, at a gun stuck in deep mud, and that was before the Afghan War of 1842, and he had not then come to his full strength.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pad	pad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Afghan	Afghan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1842	1842	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | Kala |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | gerund | Kala *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a big leather pad on Kala's forehead; at a gun | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at gun=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  | before the Afghan War | of 1842 | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **come** | past | Kala |  |  | Kala's full strength | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to strength=Initial\_Location |

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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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