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title: The bullocks went off into the long hissing snorts that Indian cattl… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The bullocks went off into the long hissing snorts that Indian cattle give, and pushed and crowded and slued and stamped and slipped and nearly fell down in the mud, grunting savagely. Who acts: bullocks, Indian cattle. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, wi
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 112

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The bullocks went off into the long hissing snorts that Indian cattle give, and pushed and crowded and slued and stamped and slipped and nearly fell down in the mud, grunting savagely.

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**Who acts:** bullocks, Indian cattle · **What happens:** go off, give, push, slue, stamp, slip · **To what, where:** long hissing snorts, mud

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bullocks, Indian cattle), 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:pg236:20:112
# text = The bullocks went off into the long hissing snorts that Indian cattle give, and pushed and crowded and slued and stamped and slipped and nearly fell down in the mud, grunting savagely.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	hissing	hissing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	snorts	snort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	slued	slue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	grunting	grunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
34	savagely	savagely	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | the bullocks |  |  | the long hissing snorts |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | Indian cattle | the long hissing snorts |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **push** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **slue** | past | the bullocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stamp** | past | the bullocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **slip** | past | the bullocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **fall down** | past | the bullocks *not said here* |  |  | the mud |  | down, nearly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mud=Location |
| 8 | **grunt** | gerund | the bullocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | savagely *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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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