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title: Then they would howl and shriek senseless songs, and invite the Jung… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they would howl and shriek senseless songs, and invite the Jungle-People to climb up their trees and fight them, or would start furious battles over nothing among themselves, and leave the dead monkeys where the Jungle-People could see them. Who acts: monkeys, Jungle People. A sentence of «The 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 120

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Then they would howl and shriek senseless songs, and invite the Jungle-People to climb up their trees and fight them, or would start furious battles over nothing among themselves, and leave the dead monkeys where the Jungle-People could see them.

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**Who acts:** monkeys, Jungle People · **What happens:** howl, shriek, invite, climb up, fight, start · **To what, where:** senseless songs, Jungle People, trees, monkeys, furious battles, nothing

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkeys, Jungle People), 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:pg236:4:120
# text = Then they would howl and shriek senseless songs, and invite the Jungle-People to climb up their trees and fight them, or would start furious battles over nothing among themselves, and leave the dead monkeys where the Jungle-People could see them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	howl	howl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	shriek	shriek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	senseless	senseless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	invite	invite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fight	fight	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	start	start	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
28	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	obl	_	_
32	among	among	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
40	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	46	advmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
45	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl:relcl	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **howl** | would | monkeys *= monkey* |  |  |  | then |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shriek** | infinitive | monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* | senseless songs |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 3 | **invite** | infinitive |  | the Jungle People |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **climb up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Jungle People *not said here* | monkeys's trees |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 5 | **fight** | infinitive |  | monkeys *= monkey* |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **start** | would |  | furious battles |  | nothing |  | among monkeys *= monkey* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality |
| 7 | **leave** | infinitive |  | the dead monkeys |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme |
| 8 | **see** | could | the Jungle People | monkeys *= monkey* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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