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title: As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the d… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be. Who acts: I, Vixen
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 98

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As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.

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**Who acts:** I, Vixen · **What happens:** not want, plowter, put, make, find, lay · **To what, where:** any, drizzle, waterproof, muzzle, sort, two rammers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, Vixen), 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:pg236:18:98
# text = As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	plowter	plowter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	drizzle	drizzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	waterproof	waterproof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	conj	_	_
39	rammers	rammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obj	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
46	along	along	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	det	_	_
51	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	advcl	_	_
54	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	57	advmod	_	_
55	Vixen	Vixen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	ccomp	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
61	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	64	advmod	_	_
62	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
63	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
64	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **plowter** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | any |  | the drizzle and the dark |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | past | I | my waterproof |  | the muzzle of one gun |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent waterproof=Theme over muzzle=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | a sort of wigwam |  |  |  | with two rammers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sort=Product |
| 5 | **find** | past | I | two rammers |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 6 | **lay** | infinitive |  |  |  | the tail of another gun |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent along tail=Destination |
| 7 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **get** | past · perfect | Vixen |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **be** | might | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **sort** |  |  | wigwam |  |  |  | with two rammers | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient with=obl |

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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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