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title: A crash and a splash told Mowgli that Bagheera had fought his way to… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A crash and a splash told Mowgli that Bagheera had fought his way to the tank where the monkeys could not follow. Who acts: crash, Bagheera, monkeys. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 85

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A crash and a splash told Mowgli that Bagheera had fought his way to the tank where the monkeys could not follow.

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**Who acts:** crash, Bagheera, monkeys · **What happens:** tell, fight, not follow · **To what, where:** Mowgli, way · **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 (crash, Bagheera, monkeys), 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:pg236:6:85
# text = A crash and a splash told Mowgli that Bagheera had fought his way to the tank where the monkeys could not follow.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	splash	splash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a crash and a splash |  | Mowgli |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mowgli=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fight** | past · perfect | Bagheera | Mowgli's way |  |  |  | to the tank | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **not** **follow** | could | the monkeys |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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