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title: Still lying down, Little Toomai looked down upon scores and scores o… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Still lying down, Little Toomai looked down upon scores and scores of broad backs, and wagging ears, and tossing trunks, and little rolling eyes. Who acts: Little. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 71

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Still lying down, Little Toomai looked down upon scores and scores of broad backs, and wagging ears, and tossing trunks, and little rolling eyes.

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**Who acts:** Little · **What happens:** lie down, look down, wag, toss, roll, score · **To what, where:** ears, trunks, broad backs

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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), 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:pg236:17:71
# text = Still lying down, Little Toomai looked down upon scores and scores of broad backs, and wagging ears, and tossing trunks, and little rolling eyes.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	scores	score	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	scores	score	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	wagging	wag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
19	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
23	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | gerund | Little *not said here* |  |  |  | still | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look down** | past | Little |  |  |  |  | upon scores and scores of broad backs; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon score=Theme |
| 3 | **wag** | gerund | Little *not said here* | ears |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 4 | **toss** | gerund | Little *not said here* | trunks |  |  |  | little rolling eyes *obl* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient |
| 5 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **score** |  |  | broad backs |  |  |  |  | nom score «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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