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title: Mowgli went through the village street in the dawn, sitting on the b… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Mowgli went through the village street in the dawn, sitting on the back of Rama, the great herd bull. Who acts: Mowgli. 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 65

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Mowgli went through the village street in the dawn, sitting on the back of Rama, the great herd bull.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli · **What happens:** go, sit · **To what, where:** village street, back

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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 (Mowgli), 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:pg236:8:65
# text = Mowgli went through the village street in the dawn, sitting on the back of Rama, the great herd bull.
1	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Mowgli |  |  | the village street | dawn |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  | the back of Rama |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=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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