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title: The elephants had stamped out more room--had stamped the thick grass… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The elephants had stamped out more room--had stamped the thick grass and juicy cane to trash, the trash into slivers, the slivers into tiny fibers, and the fibers into hard earth. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 6

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The elephants had stamped out more room--had stamped the thick grass and juicy cane to trash, the trash into slivers, the slivers into tiny fibers, and the fibers into hard earth.

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**What happens:** stamp out, stamp, trash · **To what, where:** elephants, thick grass, slivers

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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: 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:pg236:18:6
# text = The elephants had stamped out more room--had stamped the thick grass and juicy cane to trash, the trash into slivers, the slivers into tiny fibers, and the fibers into hard earth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	juicy	juicy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	trash	trash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	trash	trash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	slivers	sliver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	slivers	sliver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	fibers	fiber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fibers	fiber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **stamp out** | past · perfect · passive |  | the elephants |  |  |  | the fibers into hard earth *obl* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme room=Result |
| 2 | **stamp** | past · perfect |  | the thick grass and juicy cane and the trash |  | slivers and the slivers into tiny fibers |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent grass=Theme into sliver=Destination |
| 3 | **trash** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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