--- title: Every night a mob of these horses would be sure to break their heel… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Every night a mob of these horses would be sure to break their heel ropes and stampede up and down the camp through the mud in the dark, or the camels would break loose and run about and fall over the ropes of the tents, and you can imagine how pleasant that was for men trying to go to sleep. 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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 (night, camels, you, that), 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:pg236:18:88 # text = Every night a mob of these horses would be sure to break their heel ropes and stampede up and down the camp through the mud in the dark, or the camels would break loose and run about and fall over the ropes of the tents, and you can imagine how pleasant that was for men trying to go to sleep. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 mob mob NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 heel heel NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 ropes rope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 stampede stampede VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 down down ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 23 through through ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 35 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 38 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 41 over over ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 ropes rope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 tents tent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 49 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 50 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 52 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 53 advmod _ _ 53 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 54 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 57 nsubj _ _ 55 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 cop _ _ 56 for for ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obj _ _ 58 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 57 acl _ _ 59 to to PART TO _ 60 mark _ _ 60 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 xcomp _ _ 61 to to ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 62 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | would | every night | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **break** | to-infinitive | every night *not said here* | horses's heel ropes | | the mud | | in the dark | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rope=Patient | | 3 | **stampede up** | infinitive | every night *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **break** | would | the camels | | | | | loose *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **run about** | present | the camels *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | infinitive | the camels *not said here* | | | the ropes of the tents | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over rope=Location | | 7 | **imagine** | can | you | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 8 | **is** | past | that | | | | | for pleasant men | tree rules | | 9 | **try** | gerund | pleasant men *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 10 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | pleasant men *not said here* | | | sleep | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/89/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/)