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title: Before Little Toomai had got the ringing out of his head, before eve… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Before Little Toomai had got the ringing out of his head, before even he had shifted his position, there was not an elephant in sight except Kala Nag, Pudmini, and the elephant with the rope-galls, and there was neither sign nor rustle nor whisper down the hillsides to show where the others had gone
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 90

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Before Little Toomai had got the ringing out of his head, before even he had shifted his position, there was not an elephant in sight except Kala Nag, Pudmini, and the elephant with the rope-galls, and there was neither sign nor rustle nor whisper down the hillsides to show where the others had gone.

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**Who acts:** Little, Toomai, others · **What happens:** get, ring out, shift, be, show, go · **To what, where:** head, position, sign · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Toomai, others), 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:pg236:17:90
# text = Before Little Toomai had got the ringing out of his head, before even he had shifted his position, there was not an elephant in sight except Kala Nag, Pudmini, and the elephant with the rope-galls, and there was neither sign nor rustle nor whisper down the hillsides to show where the others had gone.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ringing	ring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	shifted	shift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	except	except	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Kala	Kala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Pudmini	Pudmini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	galls	gall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	45	expl	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	47	cc:preconj	_	_
47	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
48	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	49	cc	_	_
49	rustle	rustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
50	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	51	cc	_	_
51	whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
52	down	down	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	hillsides	hillside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	acl	_	_
57	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	61	advmod	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj	_	_
60	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	56	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · perfect | Little |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **ring out** | gerund | Little *not said here* | Toomai's head |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme |
| 3 | **shift** | past · perfect | Toomai | Toomai's position |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer position=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | sign nor rustle down the hillsides nor whisper |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **show** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go** | past · perfect | the others |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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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