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title: And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his high-pitched yell… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his high-pitched yells of encouragement to Kala Nag, above the trumpeting and crashing, and snapping of ropes, and groans of the tethered elephants. Who acts: you, encouragement. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 21

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And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his high-pitched yells of encouragement to Kala Nag, above the trumpeting and crashing, and snapping of ropes, and groans of the tethered elephants.

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**Who acts:** you, encouragement · **What happens:** be, pitch, snap, groan, tether, yell

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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 (you, encouragement), 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:pg236:16:21
# text = And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his high-pitched yells of encouragement to Kala Nag, above the trumpeting and crashing, and snapping of ropes, and groans of the tethered elephants.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lull	lull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	pitched	pitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	yells	yell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	encouragement	encouragement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	above	above	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	trumpeting	trumpeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	crashing	crashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	snapping	snap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	groans	groan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	tethered	tether	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	amod	_	_
39	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | could · past | you |  |  |  |  | hear, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pitch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **snap** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of ropes | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of rope=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **groan** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the tethered elephants | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tether** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **yell** |  | encouragement to Kala |  |  |  |  |  | nom yell «communication intransitive»: of=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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