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title: They told wonderful tales of gods and men and ghosts; and Buldeo tol… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They told wonderful tales of gods and men and ghosts; and Buldeo told even more wonderful ones of the ways of beasts in the jungle, till the eyes of the children sitting outside the circle bulged out of their heads. Who acts: huqas, Buldeo, children, eyes. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 42

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They told wonderful tales of gods and men and ghosts; and Buldeo told even more wonderful ones of the ways of beasts in the jungle, till the eyes of the children sitting outside the circle bulged out of their heads.

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**Who acts:** huqas, Buldeo, children, eyes, gods · **What happens:** tell, sit, bulge · **To what, where:** wonderful tales, wonderful ones, jungle, circle, heads · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (huqas, Buldeo, children, eyes), 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:pg236:8:42
# text = They told wonderful tales of gods and men and ghosts; and Buldeo told even more wonderful ones of the ways of beasts in the jungle, till the eyes of the children sitting outside the circle bulged out of their heads.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	till	till	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	bulged	bulge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | huqas *= huqa* | wonderful tales of gods and men and ghosts |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Buldeo | wonderful ones of the ways of beasts |  | the jungle |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | the children *not said here* |  |  | the circle |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside circle=Location |
| 4 | **bulge** | past | the eyes of the children |  |  | huqas's heads |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out head=Location |
| 5 | **tell** |  | gods and men and ghosts |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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