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title: Kya-a-ah!” he would shout, and the big fight between Kala Nag and th… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Kya-a-ah!” he would shout, and the big fight between Kala Nag and the wild elephant would sway to and fro across the Keddah, and the old elephant catchers would wipe the sweat out of their eyes, and find time to nod to Little Toomai wriggling with joy on the top of the posts. Who acts: Kya, big figh
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 37

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Kya-a-ah!” he would shout, and the big fight between Kala Nag and the wild elephant would sway to and fro across the Keddah, and the old elephant catchers would wipe the sweat out of their eyes, and find time to nod to Little Toomai wriggling with joy on the top of the posts.

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**Who acts:** Kya, big fight, old elephant catchers · **What happens:** shout, sway, fro, wipe, find, nod · **To what, where:** Keddah, sweat, eyes, Little Toomai, top

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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 (Kya, big fight, old elephant catchers), 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:pg236:16:37
# text = Kya-a-ah!” he would shout, and the big fight between Kala Nag and the wild elephant would sway to and fro across the Keddah, and the old elephant catchers would wipe the sweat out of their eyes, and find time to nod to Little Toomai wriggling with joy on the top of the posts.
1	Kya	Kya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sway	sway	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
28	across	across	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	catchers	catcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
48	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	nod	nod	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	acl	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	advcl	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
57	on	on	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* *in a quote* | would | Kya |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sway** *in a quote* | would | the big fight between Kala and the wild elephant |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fro** *in a quote* | infinitive | Kya *not said here* |  |  | the Keddah |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wipe** *in a quote* | would | the old elephant catchers | the sweat |  | catchers's eyes |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sweat=Theme out eye=Trajectory |
| 5 | **find** *in a quote* | infinitive | Kya *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **nod** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Kya *not said here* |  | Little Toomai |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to toomai=Recipient |
| 7 | **wriggle** *in a quote* | gerund | Kya *not said here* |  |  | the top of the posts |  | with joy | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «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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