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title: But the quiet, steady hustling and pushing and gurgling went on just… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the quiet, steady hustling and pushing and gurgling went on just the same. Who acts: quiet steady hustling. 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 74

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But the quiet, steady hustling and pushing and gurgling went on just the same.

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**Who acts:** quiet steady hustling · **What happens:** push, gurgle, go · **To what, where:** same

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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 (quiet steady hustling), 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:pg236:17:74
# text = But the quiet, steady hustling and pushing and gurgling went on just the same.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hustling	hustling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gurgling	gurgle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | gerund | the quiet steady hustling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gurgle** | gerund | the quiet steady hustling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | the quiet steady hustling |  |  | the same |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on same=Location |

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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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