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title: And at last, when the flames died down, and the red light of the log… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And at last, when the flames died down, and the red light of the logs made the elephants look as though they had been dipped in blood too, Machua Appa, the head of all the drivers of all the Keddahs--Machua Appa, Petersen Sahib’s other self, who had never seen a made road in forty years: Machua Appa
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 37

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And at last, when the flames died down, and the red light of the logs made the elephants look as though they had been dipped in blood too, Machua Appa, the head of all the drivers of all the Keddahs--Machua Appa, Petersen Sahib’s other self, who had never seen a made road in forty years: Machua Appa, who was so great that he had no other name than Machua Appa,--leaped to his feet, with Little Toomai held high in the air above his head, and shouted: “Listen, my brothers.

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**Who acts:** flames, red light, elephants, other self, Machua, light · **What happens:** die down, make, look, dip, not see, be · **To what, where:** last, elephants, blood, made road, other name, Machua · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames, red light, elephants, other self), 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:pg236:18:37
# text = And at last, when the flames died down, and the red light of the logs made the elephants look as though they had been dipped in blood too, Machua Appa, the head of all the drivers of all the Keddahs--Machua Appa, Petersen Sahib’s other self, who had never seen a made road in forty years: Machua Appa, who was so great that he had no other name than Machua Appa,--leaped to his feet, with Little Toomai held high in the air above his head, and shouted: “Listen, my brothers.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	dipped	dip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
32	Machua	Machua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
33	Appa	Appa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	det:predet	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Keddahs	keddah	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Machua	Machua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
47	Appa	Appa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’s	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
58	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	acl:relcl	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	amod	_	_
61	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	64	nummod	_	_
64	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	66	punct	_	_
66	Machua	Machua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	appos	_	_
67	Appa	Appa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	66	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
69	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	72	nsubj	_	_
70	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	72	cop	_	_
71	so	so	ADV	RB	_	72	advmod	_	_
72	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	parataxis	_	_
73	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	75	mark	_	_
74	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	75	nsubj	_	_
75	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	72	advcl	_	_
76	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	78	det	_	_
77	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	78	amod	_	_
78	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	75	obj	_	_
79	than	than	ADP	IN	_	80	case	_	_
80	Machua	Machua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	78	nmod	_	_
81	Appa	Appa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	80	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	84	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
83	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	84	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	66	acl:relcl	_	_
85	to	to	ADP	IN	_	87	case	_	_
86	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	87	nmod:poss	_	_
87	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	84	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
88	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	92	punct	_	_
89	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	92	mark	_	_
90	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	91	amod	_	_
91	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	92	nsubj	_	_
92	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	66	parataxis	_	_
93	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	92	xcomp	_	_
94	in	in	ADP	IN	_	96	case	_	_
95	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	96	det	_	_
96	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	93	obl	_	_
97	above	above	ADP	IN	_	99	case	_	_
98	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	99	nmod:poss	_	_
99	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	96	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
100	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	102	punct	_	_
101	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	102	cc	_	_
102	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	92	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
103	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	105	punct	_	_
104	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	105	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
105	Listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	102	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
106	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	108	punct	_	_
107	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	108	nmod:poss	_	_
108	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	105	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
109	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die down** | past | the flames |  |  | last |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **make** | past | the red light of the logs |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present | the elephants |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **dip** | past · perfect · passive |  | elephants *= elephant* |  | blood |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme self=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | Machua Petersen Sahib's other self | a made road |  |  | year |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus |
| 6 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 7 | **is** | past | Machua |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | past | light | no other name |  |  |  | than Machua | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 9 | **leap** | participle |  | Machua *not said here* |  | light's feet |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination |
| 10 | **hold** | past | Little Toomai |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | Little Toomai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 12 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my brothers |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 13 | **light** |  |  | the logs |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon 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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