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title: He set his teeth and said nothing, but went with the shouting monkey… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He set his teeth and said nothing, but went with the shouting monkeys to a terrace above the red sandstone reservoirs that were half-full of rain water. Who acts: Baloo, red sandstone reservoirs. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency tree an
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 25

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He set his teeth and said nothing, but went with the shouting monkeys to a terrace above the red sandstone reservoirs that were half-full of rain water.

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**Who acts:** Baloo, red sandstone reservoirs · **What happens:** set, say, go, be · **To what, where:** teeth, nothing, terrace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baloo, red sandstone reservoirs), 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:pg236:6:25
# text = He set his teeth and said nothing, but went with the shouting monkeys to a terrace above the red sandstone reservoirs that were half-full of rain water.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	terrace	terrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	above	above	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	sandstone	sandstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	reservoirs	reservoir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | Baloo | Baloo's teeth |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tooth=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Baloo *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | past | Baloo *not said here* |  |  | a terrace above the red sandstone reservoirs |  | with the shouting monkeys | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to terrace=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the red sandstone reservoirs |  |  |  |  | of rain water; full *property* | tree rules |

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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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