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title: “Not green corn, Protector of the Poor,--melons,” said Little Toomai… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Not green corn, Protector of the Poor,--melons,” said Little Toomai, and all the men sitting about broke into a roar of laughter. Who acts: green corn, men, laughter. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 91

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“Not green corn, Protector of the Poor,--melons,” said Little Toomai, and all the men sitting about broke into a roar of laughter.

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**Who acts:** green corn, men, laughter · **What happens:** say, sit about, break, roar · **To what, where:** roar · **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 (green corn, men, laughter), 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:pg236:16:91
# text = “Not green corn, Protector of the Poor,--melons,” said Little Toomai, and all the men sitting about broke into a roar of laughter.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Protector	protector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	melons	melon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | green corn and melons |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit about** | gerund | all men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | past | all men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a roar of laughter *result*; about *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into roar=Result |
| 4 | **roar** |  | laughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event 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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