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title: Then the big guns came by, and I saw Two Tails and two other elephan… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the big guns came by, and I saw Two Tails and two other elephants harnessed in line to a forty-pounder siege gun, while twenty yoke of oxen walked behind. Who acts: big guns, I, Two Tails, twenty yoke. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its depend
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 147

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Then the big guns came by, and I saw Two Tails and two other elephants harnessed in line to a forty-pounder siege gun, while twenty yoke of oxen walked behind.

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**Who acts:** big guns, I, Two Tails, twenty yoke · **What happens:** come by, see, harness, walk behind · **To what, where:** Two Tails, line

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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 (big guns, I, Two Tails, twenty yoke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg236:2406`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:20:147
# text = Then the big guns came by, and I saw Two Tails and two other elephants harnessed in line to a forty-pounder siege gun, while twenty yoke of oxen walked behind.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	Two	two	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Tails	Tails	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	harnessed	harness	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	pounder	pounder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
34	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come by** | past | the big guns |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | I | Two Tails and two other elephants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **harness** | participle | Two Tails and two other elephants *not said here* |  |  | line |  | to a siege gun | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to gun=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **walk behind** | past | twenty yoke of oxen |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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