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title: Those heroes in their harnesses avoid a cannon-ball, And what they k… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Those heroes in their harnesses avoid a cannon-ball, And what they know of powder upsets them one and all; Then we come into action and tug the guns again-- Make way there--way for the twenty yoke Of the Forty-Pounder train! Who acts: heroes, we. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, T
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 177

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Those heroes in their harnesses avoid a cannon-ball, And what they know of powder upsets them one and all; Then we come into action and tug the guns again-- Make way there--way for the twenty yoke Of the Forty-Pounder train!

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**Who acts:** heroes, we · **What happens:** avoid, know, upset, come, tug, make · **To what, where:** cannon ball, heroes, action, guns, way

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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 (heroes, we), 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:pg236:20:177
# text = Those heroes in their harnesses avoid a cannon-ball, And what they know of powder upsets them one and all; Then we come into action and tug the guns again-- Make way there--way for the twenty yoke Of the Forty-Pounder train!
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	harnesses	harness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	cannon	cannon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	upsets	upset	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	tug	tug	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
36	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
44	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
46	Forty	forty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	Pounder	pounder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | present | that heroes in heroes's harnesses | a cannon ball |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent ball=Location |
| 2 | **know** | present | heroes *= hero* |  |  |  |  | of powder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of powder=Stimulus |
| 3 | **upset** | present |  | heroes *= hero* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer one=Result |
| 4 | **come** | present | we |  |  | action | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into action=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **tug** | infinitive | we *not said here* | the guns |  |  | again | way for the twenty yoke of the Pounder train *obl* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent gun=Patient |
| 6 | **make** | infinitive | we *not said here* | way |  | there |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |

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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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