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title: So, bounding and crashing and whooping and yelling, the whole tribe… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, bounding and crashing and whooping and yelling, the whole tribe of Bandar-log swept along the tree-roads with Mowgli their prisoner. 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 139

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So, bounding and crashing and whooping and yelling, the whole tribe of Bandar-log swept along the tree-roads with Mowgli their prisoner.

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**What happens:** bound, crash, whoop, yell, sweep · **To what, where:** whole tribe, Bandar log, tree roads

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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: 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:pg236:4:139
# text = So, bounding and crashing and whooping and yelling, the whole tribe of Bandar-log swept along the tree-roads with Mowgli their prisoner.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bounding	bound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	crashing	crash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	whooping	whoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	swept	sweep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	along	along	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound** | gerund |  | the whole tribe of Bandar log |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tribe=Theme |
| 2 | **crash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **whoop** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sweep** | participle |  | Bandar log *not said here* |  | the tree roads with Mowgli |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |

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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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