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title: The Bandar-log howled with triumph and scuffled away to the upper br… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bandar-log howled with triumph and scuffled away to the upper branches where Bagheera dared not follow, shouting: “He has noticed us! Who acts: Bagheera. 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 129

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The Bandar-log howled with triumph and scuffled away to the upper branches where Bagheera dared not follow, shouting: “He has noticed us!

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**Who acts:** Bagheera · **What happens:** howl, scuffle away, follow, shout, notice · **To what, where:** Bandar log, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bagheera), 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:pg236:4:129
# text = The Bandar-log howled with triumph and scuffled away to the upper branches where Bagheera dared not follow, shouting: “He has noticed us!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	howled	howl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	scuffled	scuffle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
16	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
19	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **howl** | participle |  | the Bandar log *not said here* |  |  |  | with triumph | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with triumph=Theme |
| 2 | **scuffle away** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to the upper branches; away *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | past | Bagheera |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | Bagheera *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **notice** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Bagheera | us |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer we=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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