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title: The man stared, and ran back up the one street of the village shouti… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The man stared, and ran back up the one street of the village shouting for the priest, who was a big, fat man dressed in white, with a red and yellow mark on his forehead. Who acts: man, village, priest. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7, with its dependency
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 150

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The man stared, and ran back up the one street of the village shouting for the priest, who was a big, fat man dressed in white, with a red and yellow mark on his forehead.

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**Who acts:** man, village, priest · **What happens:** stare, run back, shout, be, dress · **To what, where:** one street, big fat man, white

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, village, priest), 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:pg236:7:150
# text = The man stared, and ran back up the one street of the village shouting for the priest, who was a big, fat man dressed in white, with a red and yellow mark on his forehead.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
27	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run back** | past | the man *not said here* |  |  | the one street of the village |  | with a red mark on Umph's forehead | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up street=Trajectory |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the village *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the priest | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for priest=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the priest | a big fat man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dress** | participle |  | a big fat man *not said here* |  | white |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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