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title: The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen. Who acts: Coppersmith, bird, tikki, reason. 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 86

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The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen.

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**Who acts:** Coppersmith, bird, tikki, reason · **What happens:** be, make, tell, care, listen, beat · **To what, where:** bird, noise, reason, town crier, news, everybody · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Coppersmith, bird, tikki, reason), 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:pg236:15:86
# text = The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Coppersmith	Coppersmith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	29	advmod	_	_
29	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
32	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
40	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
45	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	47	det:predet	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	44	obl	_	_
50	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	cares	care	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Coppersmith | a bird and the town crier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | a bird and the town crier | a noise |  |  |  | like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product |
| 3 | **make** | present · progressive | tikki | reason |  |  |  | always *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the reason | the town crier |  |  |  | to every Indian garden | tree rules |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Coppersmith *not said here* | all news | everybody |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Topic to everybody=Recipient |
| 6 | **care** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **listen** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **beat** |  |  | a little hammer on a copper pot |  |  |  |  | nom beating «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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