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title: The Amir had brought with him for a bodyguard eight hundred men and… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Amir had brought with him for a bodyguard eight hundred men and horses who had never seen a camp or a locomotive before in their lives--savage men and savage horses from somewhere at the back of Central Asia. Who acts: hundred men. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle B
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 87

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The Amir had brought with him for a bodyguard eight hundred men and horses who had never seen a camp or a locomotive before in their lives--savage men and savage horses from somewhere at the back of Central Asia.

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**Who acts:** hundred men · **What happens:** bring, not see · **To what, where:** Amir, camp, lives

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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 (hundred men), 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:pg236:18:87
# text = The Amir had brought with him for a bodyguard eight hundred men and horses who had never seen a camp or a locomotive before in their lives--savage men and savage horses from somewhere at the back of Central Asia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Amir	Amir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bodyguard	bodyguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	locomotive	locomotive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	before	before	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	_
41	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Amir |  |  |  | with camp; for a bodyguard | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination man=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | hundred men and horses | a camp or a locomotive |  | horses's lives and savage men and savage horses |  | at the back of Central Asia; before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer camp=Stimulus |

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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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