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title: The next few days were spent in getting the elephants together, in w… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 72

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The next few days were spent in getting the elephants together, in walking the newly caught wild elephants up and down between a couple of tame ones to prevent them giving too much trouble on the downward march to the plains, and in taking stock of the blankets and ropes and things that had been worn out or lost in the forest.

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**What happens:** spend, get, walk, catch, prevent, give · **To what, where:** next few days, elephants, caught wild elephants, couple, thorns, much trouble

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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:pg236:16:72
# text = The next few days were spent in getting the elephants together, in walking the newly caught wild elephants up and down between a couple of tame ones to prevent them giving too much trouble on the downward march to the plains, and in taking stock of the blankets and ropes and things that had been worn out or lost in the forest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
18	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
20	up	up	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
23	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	downward	downward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
46	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
47	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	58	aux:pass	_	_
58	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	acl:relcl	_	_
59	out	out	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	_
60	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	conj	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past · passive |  | the next few days |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **get** | gerund |  | the elephants |  |  |  | together *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer elephant=Stimulus |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund |  | the caught wild elephants |  | a couple of tame ones |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme between couple=Trajectory |
| 4 | **catch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **prevent** | to-infinitive |  | thorns *= thorn* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | gerund |  | much trouble | the plains | the downward march |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme on march=Asset to plain=Recipient |
| 7 | **take** | gerund |  | stock |  |  |  | of the blankets and ropes and things | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent stock=Theme of blanket=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **wear out** | past · perfect · passive |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 9 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in forest=Eventuality |

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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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