--- title: Mule, horse, elephant, or bullock, he obeys his driver, and the driv… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Mule, horse, elephant, or bullock, he obeys his driver, and the driver his sergeant, and the sergeant his lieutenant, and the lieutenant his captain, and the captain his major, and the major his colonel, and the colonel his brigadier commanding three regiments, and the brigadier the general, who obe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/169/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/) / 169 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 169 Mule, horse, elephant, or bullock, he obeys his driver, and the driver his sergeant, and the sergeant his lieutenant, and the lieutenant his captain, and the captain his major, and the major his colonel, and the colonel his brigadier commanding three regiments, and the brigadier the general, who obeys the Viceroy, who is the servant of the Empress. **Who acts:** man, driver, brigadier, Viceroy · **What happens:** obey, sergeant, command, be · **To what, where:** Mule, three regiments, Viceroy, servant · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (man, driver, brigadier, Viceroy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:20:169 # text = Mule, horse, elephant, or bullock, he obeys his driver, and the driver his sergeant, and the sergeant his lieutenant, and the lieutenant his captain, and the captain his major, and the major his colonel, and the colonel his brigadier commanding three regiments, and the brigadier the general, who obeys the Viceroy, who is the servant of the Empress. 1 Mule mule NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 bullock bullock NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 obeys obey VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 sergeant sergeant NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sergeant sergeant NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 lieutenant lieutenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 lieutenant lieutenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 major major ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 major major ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 colonel colonel NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 colonel colonel NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 48 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 brigadier brigadier NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ _ 50 commanding command VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 49 acl _ _ 51 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 52 nummod _ _ 52 regiments regiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 brigadier brigadier NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 61 nsubj _ _ 61 obeys obey VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 conj _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 Viceroy Viceroy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 61 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 64 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 65 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 68 nsubj _ _ 66 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 68 cop _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 appos _ _ 69 of of ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 70 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 71 Empress Empress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **obey** | present | man | Mule and horse and elephant or bullock | | | | the lieutenant *obl* | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Theme | | 2 | **sergeant** | | the driver | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **command** | gerund | man's brigadier *not said here* | three regiments | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent regiment=Eventuality | | 4 | **obey** | present | the brigadier | the Viceroy | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent viceroy=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | the Viceroy | the servant | | | | of the Empress | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/168/) - next →: [sentence 170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/170/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/)