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title: At last there was no sound of any more elephants moving in the fores… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last there was no sound of any more elephants moving in the forest, and Kala Nag rolled out from his station between the trees and went into the middle of the crowd, clucking and gurgling, and all the elephants began to talk in their own tongue, and to move about. Who acts: more elephants, Kala, 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 70

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At last there was no sound of any more elephants moving in the forest, and Kala Nag rolled out from his station between the trees and went into the middle of the crowd, clucking and gurgling, and all the elephants began to talk in their own tongue, and to move about.

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**Who acts:** more elephants, Kala, elephants · **What happens:** move, roll out, go, cluck, gurgle, begin · **To what, where:** forest, station, middle, own tongue

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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 (more elephants, Kala, 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:pg236:17:70
# text = At last there was no sound of any more elephants moving in the forest, and Kala Nag rolled out from his station between the trees and went into the middle of the crowd, clucking and gurgling, and all the elephants began to talk in their own tongue, and to move about.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	between	between	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	clucking	cluck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	gurgling	gurgle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	43	det:predet	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
44	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
55	about	about	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund | any more elephants *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory |
| 2 | **roll out** | past | Kala |  |  | Kala's station between the trees |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from station=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go** | past | Kala *not said here* |  |  | the middle of the crowd |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into middle=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **cluck** | gerund | Kala *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **gurgle** | gerund | Kala *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **begin** | past | all elephants |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **talk** | to-infinitive | all elephants *not said here* |  |  | elephants's own tongue |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **move about** | to-infinitive | all elephants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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