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title: There is one whole department which does nothing else but hunt them,… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There is one whole department which does nothing else but hunt them, and catch them, and break them in, and send them up and down the country as they are needed for work. Who acts: one whole department. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15, with its dependency
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 133

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There is one whole department which does nothing else but hunt them, and catch them, and break them in, and send them up and down the country as they are needed for work.

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**Who acts:** one whole department · **What happens:** be, do, hunt, catch, break in, send up · **To what, where:** nothing, Elephants

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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 (one whole department), 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:pg236:15:133
# text = There is one whole department which does nothing else but hunt them, and catch them, and break them in, and send them up and down the country as they are needed for work.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	department	department	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	_
9	else	else	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | one whole department |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | one whole department | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hunt** | infinitive | one whole department *not said here* | Elephants *= elephant* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **catch** | infinitive |  | Elephants *= elephant* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **break in** | infinitive |  | Elephants *= elephant* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
| 6 | **send up** | infinitive |  | Elephants *= elephant* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 7 | **need** | present · passive |  | Elephants *= elephant* |  |  |  | for work | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |

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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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