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title: While the men that walk beside, Dusty, silent, heavy-eyed, Cannot te… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: While the men that walk beside, Dusty, silent, heavy-eyed, Cannot tell why we or they March and suffer day by day. Who acts: men, we. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 21, sentence 4

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While the men that walk beside, Dusty, silent, heavy-eyed, Cannot tell why we or they March and suffer day by day.

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**Who acts:** men, we · **What happens:** walk, not tell, suffer · **To what, where:** Dusty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, 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:pg236:21:4
# text = While the men that walk beside, Dusty, silent, heavy-eyed, Cannot tell why we or they March and suffer day by day.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | the men |  |  | Dusty |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside dusty=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can |  |  |  |  |  | while the men | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **suffer** | present | we |  |  |  | day |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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