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title: Big Toomai prodded Kala Nag spitefully, for he was very angry, but L… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Big Toomai prodded Kala Nag spitefully, for he was very angry, but Little Toomai was too happy to speak. Who acts: Big Toomai, Toomai, Little Toomai. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 113

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Big Toomai prodded Kala Nag spitefully, for he was very angry, but Little Toomai was too happy to speak.

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**Who acts:** Big Toomai, Toomai, Little Toomai · **What happens:** prod, be, speak · **To what, where:** Kala · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Big Toomai, Toomai, Little Toomai), 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:pg236:16:113
# text = Big Toomai prodded Kala Nag spitefully, for he was very angry, but Little Toomai was too happy to speak.
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	prodded	prod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	spitefully	spitefully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prod** | past | Big Toomai | Kala |  |  |  | spitefully *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kala=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | Toomai |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Little Toomai |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Little Toomai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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