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title: Mowgli made no objection, and the monkeys gathered by hundreds and h… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Mowgli made no objection, and the monkeys gathered by hundreds and hundreds on the terrace to listen to their own speakers singing the praises of the Bandar-log, and whenever a speaker stopped for want of breath they would all shout together: “This is true; we all say so.” Who acts: Mowgli, hundreds
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 36

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Mowgli made no objection, and the monkeys gathered by hundreds and hundreds on the terrace to listen to their own speakers singing the praises of the Bandar-log, and whenever a speaker stopped for want of breath they would all shout together: “This is true; we all say so.”

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**Who acts:** Mowgli, hundreds, own speakers, speaker, speakers, This · **What happens:** make, gather, listen, sing, stop, shout · **To what, where:** objection, monkeys, praises, Bandar log, breath · **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 (Mowgli, hundreds, own speakers, speaker), 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:pg236:6:36
# text = Mowgli made no objection, and the monkeys gathered by hundreds and hundreds on the terrace to listen to their own speakers singing the praises of the Bandar-log, and whenever a speaker stopped for want of breath they would all shout together: “This is true; we all say so.”
1	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	objection	objection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	terrace	terrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	all	all	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
45	together	together	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
47	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	nsubj	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
52	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	54	advmod	_	_
54	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
55	so	so	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Mowgli | no objection |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gather** | participle · passive | hundreds on the terrace and hundreds | the monkeys |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **listen** | to-infinitive | hundreds on the terrace and hundreds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to monkeys's own speakers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to speaker=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | monkeys's own speakers *not said here* | the praises of the Bandar log |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme |
| 5 | **stop** | participle | a speaker |  |  |  |  | for want of breath; whenever *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **shout** *speech: express* | would | speakers *= speaker* |  |  |  |  | all, together *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | This |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **praise** |  |  | the Bandar log |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **want** |  |  | breath |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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