--- title: All over the plain, cattle and buffaloes were grazing, and when the… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: All over the plain, cattle and buffaloes were grazing, and when the little boys in charge of the herds saw Mowgli they shouted and ran away, and the yellow pariah dogs that hang about every Indian village barked. Who acts: cattle, little boys, yellow pariah dogs. 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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 (cattle, little boys, yellow pariah dogs), 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:pg236:7:145 # text = All over the plain, cattle and buffaloes were grazing, and when the little boys in charge of the herds saw Mowgli they shouted and ran away, and the yellow pariah dogs that hang about every Indian village barked. 1 All all ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 2 over over ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 plain plain NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 buffaloes buffalo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 grazing graze VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 herds herd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 Mowgli Mowgli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 28 away away ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 pariah pariah NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 hang hang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 about about ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 39 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 barked bark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **graze** | past · progressive | cattle and buffaloes | | | the plain | | all *property* | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | past | the little boys in charge of the herds | Mowgli | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mowgli=Stimulus | | 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | cattle | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **run away** | past | cattle *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hang about** | present | the yellow pariah dogs | every Indian village | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **bark** | participle | | every Indian village *not said here* | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **charge** | | | the herds | | | | | nom charge «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 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/7/144/) - next →: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/7/146/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/7/)