--- title: When the priest scolded him, Mowgli threatened to put him on the don… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the priest scolded him, Mowgli threatened to put him on the donkey too, and the priest told Messua’s husband that Mowgli had better be set to work as soon as possible; and the village head-man told Mowgli that he would have to go out with the buffaloes next day, and herd them while they grazed. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/) / 38 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 38 When the priest scolded him, Mowgli threatened to put him on the donkey too, and the priest told Messua’s husband that Mowgli had better be set to work as soon as possible; and the village head-man told Mowgli that he would have to go out with the buffaloes next day, and herd them while they grazed. **Who acts:** priest, Mowgli, husband, village head man, man, buffaloes · **What happens:** scold, threaten, put, tell, have, be · **To what, where:** Mowgli, husband, buffaloes · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (priest, Mowgli, husband, village head man), 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:pg236:8:38 # text = When the priest scolded him, Mowgli threatened to put him on the donkey too, and the priest told Messua’s husband that Mowgli had better be set to work as soon as possible; and the village head-man told Mowgli that he would have to go out with the buffaloes next day, and herd them while they grazed. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 scolded scold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 Mowgli Mowgli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 threatened threaten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 too too ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 Messua Messua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ’s 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 iobj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 25 Mowgli Mowgli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 29 set set ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 32 as as ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 39 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 40 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 44 Mowgli Mowgli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 iobj _ _ 45 that that SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 ccomp _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 51 out out ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 52 with with ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 buffaloes buffalo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obl _ _ 55 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 59 herd herd VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 conj _ _ 60 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 obj _ _ 61 while while SCONJ IN _ 63 mark _ _ 62 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 63 grazed graze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scold** | past | the priest | Mowgli | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **threaten** | past | Mowgli | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **put** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* | Mowgli | | | | on the donkey | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on donkey=Destination | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the priest | | Messua's husband | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient | | 5 | **have** | past | Mowgli | Messua's husband | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | | 6 | **is** | infinitive | Messua's husband *not said here* | | | | | set *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **work** | to-infinitive | Messua's husband *not said here* | | | | | soon *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the village head man | | Mowgli | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mowgli=Recipient clause=Topic | | 9 | **have** | would | man | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **go out** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | | | | day | with the buffaloes; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with buffalo=Co-Agent | | 11 | **herd** | infinitive | man *not said here* | buffaloes *= buffalo* | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 12 | **graze** | past | buffaloes *= buffalo* | | | | | | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/39/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/)