--- title: It was the village club, and the head-man and the watchman and the b… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was the village club, and the head-man and the watchman and the barber, who knew all the gossip of the village, and old Buldeo, the village hunter, who had a Tower musket, met and smoked. Who acts: servant, barber, village hunter, village. 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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 (servant, barber, village hunter, village), 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:pg236:8:40 # text = It was the village club, and the head-man and the watchman and the barber, who knew all the gossip of the village, and old Buldeo, the village hunter, who had a Tower musket, met and smoked. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 watchman watchman NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 barber barber NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 gossip gossip NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 Buldeo Buldeo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 Tower Tower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 musket musket NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 smoked smoke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | servant | the village club | | | | old Buldeo *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | past | the barber | all gossip of the village | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer gossip=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | past | the village hunter | a Tower musket | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent musket=Patient | | 4 | **meet** | participle | | a Tower musket *not said here* | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **smoke** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **gossip** | | the village | | | | | | nom gossip «communication intransitive»: of=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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/41/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/)