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title: When a battery--a screw-gun mule calls gun-bullocks gentlemen, he mu… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When a battery--a screw-gun mule calls gun-bullocks gentlemen, he must be very badly shaken up. Who acts: mule calls. 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 25

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When a battery--a screw-gun mule calls gun-bullocks gentlemen, he must be very badly shaken up.

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**Who acts:** mule calls · **What happens:** gentleman, shake up · **To what, where:** battery

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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 (mule calls), 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:pg236:19:25
# text = When a battery--a screw-gun mule calls gun-bullocks gentlemen, he must be very badly shaken up.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
6	screw	screw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
14	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gentleman** |  | mule calls |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shake up** | must · passive |  | a battery |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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