--- title: Two hours later, as Petersen Sahib was eating early breakfast, his e… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Two hours later, as Petersen Sahib was eating early breakfast, his elephants, who had been double chained that night, began to trumpet, and Pudmini, mired to the shoulders, with Kala Nag, very footsore, shambled into the camp. Who acts: Petersen, elephants, Pudmini. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petersen, elephants, Pudmini), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:18:11 # text = Two hours later, as Petersen Sahib was eating early breakfast, his elephants, who had been double chained that night, began to trumpet, and Pudmini, mired to the shoulders, with Kala Nag, very footsore, shambled into the camp. 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 Petersen Petersen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 Sahib Sahib PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 cop _ _ 19 double double ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 chained chain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 21 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 trumpet trumpet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 Pudmini Pudmini PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 mired mire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Kala Kala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl:agent _ _ 38 Nag Nag PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 very very ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 footsore footsore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 shambled shamble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 41 conj _ _ 44 into into ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past · progressive | Petersen | early breakfast and Petersen's elephants | | | | late *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past · perfect | Petersen's elephants | | | | night | chain, double *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **begin** | past | Petersen's elephants *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **trumpet** | to-infinitive | Petersen's elephants *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mire** | participle | Pudmini | | | | | to the shoulders | tree rules | | 6 | **shamble** | participle | Pudmini *not said here* | | | the camp | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into camp=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/12/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/)