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title: The third elephant watched the two go away, snorted, wheeled round,… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The third elephant watched the two go away, snorted, wheeled round, and took his own path. Who acts: third elephant, two. 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 9

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The third elephant watched the two go away, snorted, wheeled round, and took his own path.

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**Who acts:** third elephant, two · **What happens:** watch, go away, snort, wheel round, take · **To what, where:** own path

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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 (third elephant, two), 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:pg236:18:9
# text = The third elephant watched the two go away, snorted, wheeled round, and took his own path.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	snorted	snort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	wheeled	wheel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	round	round	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | the third elephant |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go away** | present | the two |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **snort** | participle | the third elephant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wheel round** | participle | the third elephant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | past | the third elephant *not said here* | Petersen's own path |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |

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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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