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title: As each man was paid he went back to his elephant, and joined the li… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As each man was paid he went back to his elephant, and joined the line that stood ready to start. Who acts: clerk, line. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 74

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As each man was paid he went back to his elephant, and joined the line that stood ready to start.

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**Who acts:** clerk, line · **What happens:** pay, go back, join, stand, start · **To what, where:** man, line

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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 (clerk, line), 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:pg236:16:74
# text = As each man was paid he went back to his elephant, and joined the line that stood ready to start.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past · passive |  | each man |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **go back** | past | clerk |  |  |  |  | to clerk's elephant *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to elephant=Result |
| 3 | **join** | past | clerk *not said here* | the line |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the line |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **start** | to-infinitive | the line *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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