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title: The baggage-camel had been bobbing his head to and fro for some time… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The baggage-camel had been bobbing his head to and fro for some time past, anxious to get a word in edgewise. Who acts: baggage camel. 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 93

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The baggage-camel had been bobbing his head to and fro for some time past, anxious to get a word in edgewise.

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**Who acts:** baggage camel · **What happens:** bob, fro, get · **To what, where:** head, word, edgewise

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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 (baggage camel), 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:pg236:19:93
# text = The baggage-camel had been bobbing his head to and fro for some time past, anxious to get a word in edgewise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	baggage	baggage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
7	bobbing	bob	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fro	fro	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	past	past	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	edgewise	edgewise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bob** | past · perfect · progressive | the baggage camel | back's head |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 2 | **fro** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | time | past *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | the baggage camel *not said here* | a word |  | edgewise |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |

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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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