--- title: The slaty-blue buffaloes, with their long, backward-sweeping horns a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: The slaty-blue buffaloes, with their long, backward-sweeping horns and savage eyes, rose out their byres, one by one, and followed him, and Mowgli made it very clear to the children with him that he was the master. Who acts: blue buffaloes, Mowgli. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/66/) [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/) / 66 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 66 The slaty-blue buffaloes, with their long, backward-sweeping horns and savage eyes, rose out their byres, one by one, and followed him, and Mowgli made it very clear to the children with him that he was the master. **Who acts:** blue buffaloes, Mowgli · **What happens:** rise out, follow, make, be · **To what, where:** byres, Mowgli, Flower, master 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 (blue buffaloes, Mowgli), 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:pg236:8:66 # text = The slaty-blue buffaloes, with their long, backward-sweeping horns and savage eyes, rose out their byres, one by one, and followed him, and Mowgli made it very clear to the children with him that he was the master. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 slaty slaty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 buffaloes buffalo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 backward backward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 sweeping sweeping ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 savage savage ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 byres byre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 appos _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 Mowgli Mowgli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 very very ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 43 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise out** | past | the blue buffaloes with buffaloes's long sweeping horns and savage eyes | buffaloes's byres | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location byre=Theme | | 2 | **follow** | past | the blue buffaloes with buffaloes's long sweeping horns and savage eyes *not said here* | Mowgli | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **make** | past | Mowgli | Flower | | | | with bull; clear *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 4 | **is a** | past | Mowgli | the master | | | | | tree rules | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/67/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/)