--- title: A scuffling mass of monkeys, biting, scratching, tearing, and pullin… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: A scuffling mass of monkeys, biting, scratching, tearing, and pulling, closed over Bagheera, while five or six laid hold of Mowgli, dragged him up the wall of the summerhouse and pushed him through the hole of the broken dome. Who acts: scuffling mass, five laid hold. 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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 (scuffling mass, five laid hold), 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:pg236:6:59 # text = A scuffling mass of monkeys, biting, scratching, tearing, and pulling, closed over Bagheera, while five or six laid hold of Mowgli, dragged him up the wall of the summerhouse and pushed him through the hole of the broken dome. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 scuffling scuffle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 mass mass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 biting bite VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 scratching scratch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 tearing tear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 pulling pull VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 17 over over ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Bagheera Bagheera PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 21 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 conj _ _ 24 laid laid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Mowgli Mowgli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 29 dragged drag VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 summerhouse summerhouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 through through ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 amod _ _ 46 dome dome NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scuffle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bite** | gerund | a scuffling mass of monkeys | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **scratch** | gerund | a scuffling mass of monkeys *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tear** | gerund | a scuffling mass of monkeys *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pull** | gerund | a scuffling mass of monkeys *not said here* | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **close** | participle | a scuffling mass of monkeys *not said here* | | | Bagheera | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **drag up** | past | five laid hold of Mowgli | mass | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **push** | past | five laid hold of Mowgli *not said here* | mass | | the hole of the broken dome | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme through hole=Trajectory | | 9 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 10 | **hold** | | | Mowgli | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/60/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/)