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title: It was a very lively march on account of the new elephants, who gave… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a very lively march on account of the new elephants, who gave trouble at every ford, and needed coaxing or beating every other minute. Who acts: silver, lively march. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 112

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It was a very lively march on account of the new elephants, who gave trouble at every ford, and needed coaxing or beating every other minute.

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**Who acts:** silver, lively march · **What happens:** be, give, need, coax, beat · **To what, where:** lively march, account, trouble, ford

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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 (silver, lively march), 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:pg236:16:112
# text = It was a very lively march on account of the new elephants, who gave trouble at every ford, and needed coaxing or beating every other minute.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	ford	ford	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	coaxing	coax	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	conj	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | silver | a lively march |  | account |  | of the new elephants | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | a lively march | trouble |  | every ford |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme at ford=Asset |
| 3 | **need** | past | a lively march *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **coax** *not said to happen* | gerund | a lively march *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **beat** | gerund | a lively march *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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