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title: “There are plenty of men and plenty of other camels close by, and a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “There are plenty of men and plenty of other camels close by, and a great many clouds of smoke. Who acts: plenty. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 108

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“There are plenty of men and plenty of other camels close by, and a great many clouds of smoke.

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**Who acts:** plenty · **What happens:** be, cloud · **To what, where:** great many clouds, smoke

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty), 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:pg236:19:108
# text = “There are plenty of men and plenty of other camels close by, and a great many clouds of smoke.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | plenty of men and plenty of other camels | a great many clouds of smoke |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cloud** *in a quote* |  |  | smoke |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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