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title: Big Toomai went up to the clerk with Little Toomai behind him, and M… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Big Toomai went up to the clerk with Little Toomai behind him, and Machua Appa, the head tracker, said in an undertone to a friend of his, “There goes one piece of good elephant stuff at least. ’ Who acts: Big Toomai, Machua. 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 76

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Big Toomai went up to the clerk with Little Toomai behind him, and Machua Appa, the head tracker, said in an undertone to a friend of his, “There goes one piece of good elephant stuff at least. ’

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**Who acts:** Big Toomai, Machua · **What happens:** go up, say, go · **To what, where:** undertone, one piece · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Big Toomai, Machua), 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:pg236:16:76
# text = Big Toomai went up to the clerk with Little Toomai behind him, and Machua Appa, the head tracker, said in an undertone to a friend of his, “There goes one piece of good elephant stuff at least. ’
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	Machua	Machua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	Appa	Appa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	tracker	tracker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	undertone	undertone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
34	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
44	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | Big Toomai |  |  |  |  | to the clerk with Little Toomai behind clerk | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Machua |  |  | a undertone |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in undertone=Manner |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present |  | one piece of good elephant stuff |  | there |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme |

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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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