--- title: When the two listened to him he was shouting at the top of his voice… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the two listened to him he was shouting at the top of his voice, “And so I shall have a tribe of my own, and lead them through the branches all day long.” Who acts: two, Mowgli. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/4/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/4/) / 61 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 61 When the two listened to him he was shouting at the top of his voice, “And so I shall have a tribe of my own, and lead them through the branches all day long.” **Who acts:** two, Mowgli · **What happens:** listen, shout, have, lead · **To what, where:** Mowgli, top, tribe, Words, branches · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (two, Mowgli), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:4:61 # text = When the two listened to him he was shouting at the top of his voice, “And so I shall have a tribe of my own, and lead them through the branches all day long.” 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nsubj _ _ 4 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 And and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:unmarked _ _ 37 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | past | the two | | Mowgli | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme | | 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past · progressive | Mowgli | | | the top of Mowgli's voice | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | Mowgli | a tribe of my own | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Patient | | 4 | **lead** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* | Words *= word* | | the branches all day | | long *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme through branch=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/4/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/4/62/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/4/)