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title: And most of the wolves began to gather round Shere Khan, whose tail… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And most of the wolves began to gather round Shere Khan, whose tail was beginning to switch. Who acts: most, tail. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 105

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And most of the wolves began to gather round Shere Khan, whose tail was beginning to switch.

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**Who acts:** most, tail · **What happens:** begin, gather, switch

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most, tail), 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:pg236:3:105
# text = And most of the wolves began to gather round Shere Khan, whose tail was beginning to switch.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	switch	switch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | most of the wolves |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **gather** | to-infinitive | most of the wolves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round Shere | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past · progressive | tail |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **switch** | to-infinitive | tail *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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