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title: The very cattle that would trample a white man to death allow themse… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The very cattle that would trample a white man to death allow themselves to be banged and bullied and shouted at by children that hardly come up to their noses. Who acts: cattle, children. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 62

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The very cattle that would trample a white man to death allow themselves to be banged and bullied and shouted at by children that hardly come up to their noses.

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**Who acts:** cattle, children · **What happens:** trample, allow, bang, bully, shout, come up · **To what, where:** white man, cattle, noses

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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 (cattle, children), 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:pg236:8:62
# text = The very cattle that would trample a white man to death allow themselves to be banged and bullied and shouted at by children that hardly come up to their noses.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	trample	trample	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	allow	allow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	banged	bang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bullied	bully	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	shouted	shout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trample** | would | the cattle | a white man |  |  |  | to death | tree rules |
| 2 | **allow** | present | the cattle | cattle |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **bang** | to-infinitive · passive | the cattle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V» |
| 4 | **bully** | participle | the cattle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle | the cattle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by children | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come up** | present | children |  |  | cattle's noses |  | hardly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to nose=Initial\_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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