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title: Little Toomai looked back, and behind him a great wild tusker with h… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Toomai looked back, and behind him a great wild tusker with his little pig’s eyes glowing like hot coals was just lifting himself out of the misty river. Who acts: Little Toomai, eyes, great wild tusker. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17, with its de
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 52

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Little Toomai looked back, and behind him a great wild tusker with his little pig’s eyes glowing like hot coals was just lifting himself out of the misty river.

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**Who acts:** Little Toomai, eyes, great wild tusker · **What happens:** look back, glow, lift · **To what, where:** Toomai, misty river

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Toomai, eyes, great wild tusker), 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:pg236:17:52
# text = Little Toomai looked back, and behind him a great wild tusker with his little pig’s eyes glowing like hot coals was just lifting himself out of the misty river.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tusker	tusker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
19	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | past | Little Toomai |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **glow** | gerund | Toomai's little pig's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like hot coals | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lift** | past · progressive | a great wild tusker with Toomai's little pig's eyes | Toomai |  | the misty river |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme out river=Destination |

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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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