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title: The monkeys scattered with cries of--“Kaa! — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The monkeys scattered with cries of--“Kaa! Who acts: Kaa. 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 98

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The monkeys scattered with cries of--“Kaa!

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**Who acts:** Kaa · **What happens:** scatter, cry · **To what, where:** monkeys

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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 (Kaa), 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:pg236:6:98
# text = The monkeys scattered with cries of--“Kaa!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **scatter** | participle · passive |  | the monkeys |  |  |  | with cries of Kaa | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with cry=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** |  | Kaa |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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