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title: Once or twice he could feel Kala Nag and all the others surge forwar… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once or twice he could feel Kala Nag and all the others surge forward a few strides, and the thumping would change to the crushing sound of juicy green things being bruised, but in a minute or two the boom of feet on hard earth began again. Who acts: Toomai, others, thumping, boom. A sentence of «Th
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 83

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Once or twice he could feel Kala Nag and all the others surge forward a few strides, and the thumping would change to the crushing sound of juicy green things being bruised, but in a minute or two the boom of feet on hard earth began again.

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**Who acts:** Toomai, others, thumping, boom · **What happens:** feel, surge, change, crush, bruise, begin · **To what, where:** Kala, few strides, juicy green things, feet

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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 (Toomai, others, thumping, boom), 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:pg236:17:83
# text = Once or twice he could feel Kala Nag and all the others surge forward a few strides, and the thumping would change to the crushing sound of juicy green things being bruised, but in a minute or two the boom of feet on hard earth began again.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	conj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	surge	surge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	strides	stride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	thumping	thumping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	crushing	crush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	juicy	juicy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	bruised	bruise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
49	again	again	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | could | Toomai | Kala |  |  |  | once *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kala=Theme |
| 2 | **surge** | present | all others | a few strides |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stride=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | would | the thumping |  |  |  |  | to the crushing sound of juicy green things *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to sound=Result |
| 4 | **crush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **bruise** | gerund · passive |  | juicy green things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
| 6 | **begin** | past | the boom of feet on hard earth |  |  |  | again; minute |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **boom** |  |  | feet on hard earth |  |  |  |  | nom boom «event 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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