--- title: He very much preferred the camp life, and hated those broad, flat ro… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: He very much preferred the camp life, and hated those broad, flat roads, with the daily grubbing for grass in the forage reserve, and the long hours when there was nothing to do except to watch Kala Nag fidgeting in his pickets. Who acts: Toomai, daily, Kala. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toomai, daily, Kala), 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:pg236:16:15 # text = He very much preferred the camp life, and hated those broad, flat roads, with the daily grubbing for grass in the forage reserve, and the long hours when there was nothing to do except to watch Kala Nag fidgeting in his pickets. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 much much ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 preferred prefer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 hated hate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 12 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 daily daily NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 20 grubbing grub VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 forage forage NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 reserve reserve NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 32 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 34 nsubj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl _ _ 38 except except ADP IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 41 Kala Kala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 Nag Nag PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 flat _ _ 43 fidgeting fidget VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 acl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 pickets picket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prefer** | past | Toomai | the camp life | | | hour | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus | | 2 | **hate** | past | Toomai *not said here* | that broad flat roads | | | | with the daily | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus | | 3 | **grub** | gerund | the daily *not said here* | | | the forage reserve | | for grass | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | Toomai *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **watch** | to-infinitive | Toomai *not said here* | Kala | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kala=Theme | | 6 | **fidget** | gerund | Kala *not said here* | | | Toomai's pickets | | | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/16/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/16/16/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/16/)