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title: She must have broken her pickets and come straight from Petersen Sah… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She must have broken her pickets and come straight from Petersen Sahib’s camp; and Little Toomai saw another elephant, one that he did not know, with deep rope galls on his back and breast. Who acts: chain, Little Toomai, Toomai. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, p
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 68

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She must have broken her pickets and come straight from Petersen Sahib’s camp; and Little Toomai saw another elephant, one that he did not know, with deep rope galls on his back and breast.

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**Who acts:** chain, Little Toomai, Toomai · **What happens:** break, come, see, not know, gall · **To what, where:** pickets, camp, elephant, back

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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 (chain, Little Toomai, Toomai), 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:pg236:17:68
# text = She must have broken her pickets and come straight from Petersen Sahib’s camp; and Little Toomai saw another elephant, one that he did not know, with deep rope galls on his back and breast.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pickets	picket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
14	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
33	galls	gall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | must · perfect | chain | chain's pickets |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picket=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | present | chain *not said here* |  |  | Petersen's camp |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from camp=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | Little Toomai | another elephant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Toomai |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 5 | **gall** | present | Little Toomai *not said here* |  |  | Toomai's back and breast |  | with deep rope | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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