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title: An Assamese driver, two or three elephants ahead, turned round angri… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: An Assamese driver, two or three elephants ahead, turned round angrily, crying: “Bring up Kala Nag, and knock this youngster of mine into good behavior. 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 120

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An Assamese driver, two or three elephants ahead, turned round angrily, crying: “Bring up Kala Nag, and knock this youngster of mine into good behavior.

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**What happens:** turn round, cry, bring up, knock · **To what, where:** Assamese driver, Kala, youngster, good behavior · **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: 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:pg236:16:120
# text = An Assamese driver, two or three elephants ahead, turned round angrily, crying: “Bring up Kala Nag, and knock this youngster of mine into good behavior.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Assamese	assamese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
12	round	round	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	knock	knock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	youngster	youngster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	behavior	behavior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn round** | participle |  | a Assamese driver and two elephants *not said here* |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Kala |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kala=Patient |
| 4 | **knock** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this youngster of mine |  | good behavior |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent youngster=Theme into behavior=Destination |

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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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