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title: The gun bullocks rolled their cuds, and answered both together: “The… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The gun bullocks rolled their cuds, and answered both together: “The seventh yoke of the first gun of the Big Gun Battery. Who acts: gun bullocks. 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 27

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The gun bullocks rolled their cuds, and answered both together: “The seventh yoke of the first gun of the Big Gun Battery.

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**Who acts:** gun bullocks · **What happens:** roll, answer · **To what, where:** cuds

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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 (gun bullocks), 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:pg236:19:27
# text = The gun bullocks rolled their cuds, and answered both together: “The seventh yoke of the first gun of the Big Gun Battery.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cuds	cud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	both	both	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
24	Gun	Gun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Battery	Battery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past | the gun bullocks | bullocks's cuds |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Agent |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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