--- title: “The man who walks at your head--Or sits on your back--Or holds the… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: “The man who walks at your head--Or sits on your back--Or holds the nose rope--Or twists your tail,” said Billy and the troop-horse and the camel and the bullocks one after the other. Who acts: man, nose rope. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, nose rope), 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:pg236:20:80 # text = “The man who walks at your head--Or sits on your back--Or holds the nose rope--Or twists your tail,” said Billy and the troop-horse and the camel and the bullocks one after the other. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 -- -- PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 twists twist VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 Billy Billy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 troop troop NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 bullocks bullock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 41 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 ccomp _ _ 42 after after ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** *in a quote* | present | the man | | | your head | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at head=Trajectory | | 2 | **sit** *in a quote* | present | the man *not said here* | | | your back | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | | 3 | **hold** *in a quote* | present | the man *not said here* | the nose rope | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | | 4 | **twist** *in a quote* | present | the nose rope *not said here* | your tail | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/81/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/)