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title: The bullocks and the camel said, half aloud, “Afraid of Two Tails--w… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The bullocks and the camel said, half aloud, “Afraid of Two Tails--what nonsense!” Who acts: bullocks, Afraid. 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 178

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The bullocks and the camel said, half aloud, “Afraid of Two Tails--what nonsense!”

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**Who acts:** bullocks, Afraid · **What happens:** say, nonsense · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (bullocks, Afraid), 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:pg236:19:178
# text = The bullocks and the camel said, half aloud, “Afraid of Two Tails--what nonsense!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	advmod	_	_
9	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Afraid	Afraid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	Tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
18	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the bullocks and the camel |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **nonsense** *in a quote* |  | Afraid of Two Tails |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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