--- title: Kala Nag put Little Toomai down, and he bowed to the earth again and… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Kala Nag put Little Toomai down, and he bowed to the earth again and went away with his father, and gave the silver four-anna piece to his mother, who was nursing his baby brother, and they all were put up on Kala Nag’s back, and the line of grunting, squealing elephants rolled down the hill path to --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/16/111/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/16/) / 111 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 111 Kala Nag put Little Toomai down, and he bowed to the earth again and went away with his father, and gave the silver four-anna piece to his mother, who was nursing his baby brother, and they all were put up on Kala Nag’s back, and the line of grunting, squealing elephants rolled down the hill path to the plains. **Who acts:** Kala, mother, line · **What happens:** put down, bow, go away, give, nurse, put up · **To what, where:** Little Toomai, silver, baby brother, places, hill path, plains This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kala, mother, line), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:16:111 # text = Kala Nag put Little Toomai down, and he bowed to the earth again and went away with his father, and gave the silver four-anna piece to his mother, who was nursing his baby brother, and they all were put up on Kala Nag’s back, and the line of grunting, squealing elephants rolled down the hill path to the plains. 1 Kala Kala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Nag Nag PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Toomai Toomai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 bowed bow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 again again ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 anna anna NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 nursing nurse VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 acl _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 45 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 46 up up ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 Kala Kala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 Nag Nag PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ _ 51 back back ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nsubj _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 grunting grunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 59 squealing squeal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 61 advcl _ _ 60 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 nsubj _ _ 61 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 62 down down ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 compound _ _ 65 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ _ 66 to to ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 plains plain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put down** | past | Kala | | Little Toomai | | | down *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent toomai=Goal | | 2 | **bow** | past | Kala | | | | again | to the earth | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme | | 3 | **go away** | past | Kala *not said here* | | | | | with Kala's father; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with father=Beneficiary | | 4 | **give** | past | Kala *not said here* | the silver | | | | to Kala's mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent silver=Recipient piece=Theme | | 5 | **nurse** | past · progressive | Kala's mother | | Kala's baby brother | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Beneficiary | | 6 | **put up** | past · passive | | places *= place* | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | | 7 | **squeal** | gerund | the line of grunting *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **roll down** | past | the line of grunting | the hill path | | the plains | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent path=Theme to plain=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/16/110/) - next →: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/16/112/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/16/)