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title: And these elephants were not thinking of men that night. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And these elephants were not thinking of men that night. Who acts: elephants. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 66

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And these elephants were not thinking of men that night.

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**Who acts:** elephants · **What happens:** not think

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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 (elephants), 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:pg236:17:66
# text = And these elephants were not thinking of men that night.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | this elephants |  |  |  | night | of men | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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