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title: Keep the cows and calves together, and the bulls and the plow buffal… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep the cows and calves together, and the bulls and the plow buffaloes by themselves.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 132

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Keep the cows and calves together, and the bulls and the plow buffaloes by themselves.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** cows

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg236:8:132
# text = Keep the cows and calves together, and the bulls and the plow buffaloes by themselves.”
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	calves	calf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	plow	plow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | the cows and calves |  |  |  | by buffaloes *= buffalo*; the bulls and the plow buffaloes *obl*; together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cow=Theme by themselves=Location |

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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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