--- title: “Now, if I lie in one word, send men to see, and they will find that… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Now, if I lie in one word, send men to see, and they will find that the elephant folk have trampled down more room in their dance-room, and they will find ten and ten, and many times ten, tracks leading to that dance-room. Who acts: Kala, you, words, tracks. 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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 (Kala, you, words, tracks), 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:pg236:18:16 # text = “Now, if I lie in one word, send men to see, and they will find that the elephant folk have trampled down more room in their dance-room, and they will find ten and ten, and many times ten, tracks leading to that dance-room. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 11 send send VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 trampled trample VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 ccomp _ _ 26 down down ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 28 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 31 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 39 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 46 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 45 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ _ 49 leading lead VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 48 acl _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 51 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 54 det _ _ 52 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 53 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Kala | | | one word | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in word=Location | | 2 | **send** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | men | | | now; time | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **find** *in a quote* | future | words *= word* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **trample down** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | the elephant folk | | | | room in words's dance room *obl* | tree rules | | 6 | **find** *in a quote* | future | words *= word* | ten | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Topic | | 7 | **lead** *in a quote* | gerund | tracks *not said here* | | | | | to that dance room | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to room=Patient | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/17/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/)