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title: The big parade of all the thirty thousand men was held that afternoo… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The big parade of all the thirty thousand men was held that afternoon, and Vixen and I had a good place close to the Viceroy and the Amir of Afghanistan, with high, big black hat of astrakhan wool and the great diamond star in the center. Who acts: Vixen. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard K
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 143

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The big parade of all the thirty thousand men was held that afternoon, and Vixen and I had a good place close to the Viceroy and the Amir of Afghanistan, with high, big black hat of astrakhan wool and the great diamond star in the center.

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**Who acts:** Vixen · **What happens:** hold, have · **To what, where:** big parade, good place

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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 (Vixen), 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:pg236:20:143
# text = The big parade of all the thirty thousand men was held that afternoon, and Vixen and I had a good place close to the Viceroy and the Amir of Afghanistan, with high, big black hat of astrakhan wool and the great diamond star in the center.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	parade	parade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	Vixen	Vixen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	conj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Viceroy	Viceroy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Amir	Amir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	astrakhan	astrakhan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the big parade of all thousand men |  |  | afternoon |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Vixen | a good place |  |  |  | with high big black hat of astrakhan wool and the great diamond star in the center | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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