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title: Tall are the camels, heavy are the kine, But this was Least of Littl… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Tall are the camels, heavy are the kine, But this was Least of Little Things, O little son of mine! A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 71

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Tall are the camels, heavy are the kine, But this was Least of Little Things, O little son of mine!

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Tall camels, heavy kine

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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:pg236:18:71
# text = Tall are the camels, heavy are the kine, But this was Least of Little Things, O little son of mine!
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	Least	Least	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Things	Thing	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	21	case	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Tall camels and the heavy kine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the heavy kine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of this Least Little Things | 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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