--- title: Mowgli was sore and angry as well as hungry, and he roamed through t… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Mowgli was sore and angry as well as hungry, and he roamed through the empty city giving the Strangers’ Hunting Call from time to time, but no one answered him, and Mowgli felt that he had reached a very bad place indeed. Who acts: Mowgli, Strangers, one. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, Strangers, one), 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:pg236:6:18 # text = Mowgli was sore and angry as well as hungry, and he roamed through the empty city giving the Strangers’ Hunting Call from time to time, but no one answered him, and Mowgli felt that he had reached a very bad place indeed. 1 Mowgli Mowgli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 9 cc _ _ 7 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 fixed _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 9 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 roamed roam VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Strangers Stranger PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ ' VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 22 Hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 Call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 31 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 Mowgli Mowgli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 reached reach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 very very ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 46 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Mowgli | | | | | sore *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Mowgli *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Mowgli *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **roam** | past | Mowgli | | | the empty city | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through city=Trajectory | | 5 | **give** | gerund | Mowgli *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **'** | past | the Strangers | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **hunt** | gerund | the Strangers *not said here* | Call | | | time | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | | 8 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | no one | | Mowgli | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | | 9 | **feel** | past | Mowgli | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 10 | **reach** | past · perfect | Mowgli | a bad place | | | | indeed *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/19/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/)