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title: And in this way, talking and wrangling and splashing through the riv… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And in this way, talking and wrangling and splashing through the rivers, they made their first march to a sort of receiving camp for the new elephants. Who acts: way, ways, sort. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 148

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And in this way, talking and wrangling and splashing through the rivers, they made their first march to a sort of receiving camp for the new elephants.

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**Who acts:** way, ways, sort · **What happens:** talk, wrangle, splash, make, receive · **To what, where:** rivers, first march, way, camp

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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 (way, ways, sort), 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:pg236:16:148
# text = And in this way, talking and wrangling and splashing through the rivers, they made their first march to a sort of receiving camp for the new elephants.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wrangling	wrangle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	splashing	splash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | gerund | this way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wrangle** | gerund | this way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **splash** | gerund | this way *not said here* |  |  | the rivers |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through river=Location |
| 4 | **make** | past | ways *= way* | ways's first march |  | this way |  | to a sort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset march=Product |
| 5 | **receive** | gerund | a sort *not said here* | camp |  |  |  | for the new elephants | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=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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