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title: The Monkey-People, watching in the trees, considered his play most w… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Monkey-People, watching in the trees, considered his play most wonderful. Who acts: Monkey People, Mowgli. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 125

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The Monkey-People, watching in the trees, considered his play most wonderful.

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**Who acts:** Monkey People, Mowgli · **What happens:** watch, consider, play · **To what, where:** trees, play

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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 (Monkey People, Mowgli), 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:pg236:4:125
# text = The Monkey-People, watching in the trees, considered his play most wonderful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
15	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund | the Monkey People *not said here* |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location |
| 2 | **consider** | past | the Monkey People | Mowgli's play |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent play=Attribute |
| 3 | **play** |  | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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