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title: We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked again, and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls, and pieces of the wall fall out, and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home.” Who acts: We, big guns, pieces, dust. A senten
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 132

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We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked again, and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls, and pieces of the wall fall out, and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home.”

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**Who acts:** We, big guns, pieces, dust, many cattle · **What happens:** go, unyoke, graze, talk, fall out, go up · **To what, where:** level plain, we, plain

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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 (We, big guns, pieces, dust), 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:pg236:19:132
# text = We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked again, and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls, and pieces of the wall fall out, and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home.”
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	unyoked	unyoke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	graze	graze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	across	across	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
49	up	up	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	as	as	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
51	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
52	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	_
54	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
56	home	home	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | We |  |  | the level plain |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across plain=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **unyoke** | present · passive |  | we |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **graze** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **talk** | present | the big guns |  |  | the plain to some town with mud walls |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fall out** | infinitive | pieces of the wall |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **go up** | present | the dust |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **come** | past · progressive | many cattle |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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