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title: Then an elephant trumpeted, and they all took it up for five or ten… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then an elephant trumpeted, and they all took it up for five or ten terrible seconds. Who acts: elephant, 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 77

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Then an elephant trumpeted, and they all took it up for five or ten terrible seconds.

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**Who acts:** elephant, elephants · **What happens:** trumpet, take up · **To what, where:** trunk

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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 (elephant, 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:pg236:17:77
# text = Then an elephant trumpeted, and they all took it up for five or ten terrible seconds.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	trumpeted	trumpet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trumpet** | participle | a elephant |  |  |  | then |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take up** | past | elephants *= elephant* | trunk |  |  | second |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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