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title: They drank at the tanks and made the water all muddy, and then they… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They drank at the tanks and made the water all muddy, and then they fought over it, and then they would all rush together in mobs and shout: “There is no one in the jungle so wise and good and clever and strong and gentle as the Bandar-log.” Who acts: monkeys, one. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 7

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They drank at the tanks and made the water all muddy, and then they fought over it, and then they would all rush together in mobs and shout: “There is no one in the jungle so wise and good and clever and strong and gentle as the Bandar-log.”

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**Who acts:** monkeys, one · **What happens:** drink, make, fight, rush, shout, be · **To what, where:** tanks, water, mobs · **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 (monkeys, one), 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:pg236:6:7
# text = They drank at the tanks and made the water all muddy, and then they fought over it, and then they would all rush together in mobs and shout: “There is no one in the jungle so wise and good and clever and strong and gentle as the Bandar-log.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	rush	rush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	mobs	mob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
34	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
52	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | monkeys *= monkey* |  |  | the tanks |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* | the water |  |  |  | muddy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product |
| 3 | **fight** | past | monkeys *= monkey* |  |  |  | then | over water | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over it=Theme |
| 4 | **rush** | would | monkeys *= monkey* |  |  | mobs | then | all, together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mob=Trajectory |
| 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no one in the jungle |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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