--- title: Then they sleep and wake and sleep again, and weave little baskets o… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then they sleep and wake and sleep again, and weave little baskets of dried grass and put grasshoppers in them; or catch two praying mantises and make them fight; or string a necklace of red and black jungle nuts; or watch a lizard basking on a rock, or a snake hunting a frog near the wallows. 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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 (kites, lizard, snake), 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:pg236:8:88 # text = Then they sleep and wake and sleep again, and weave little baskets of dried grass and put grasshoppers in them; or catch two praying mantises and make them fight; or string a necklace of red and black jungle nuts; or watch a lizard basking on a rock, or a snake hunting a frog near the wallows. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 wake wake VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 again again ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 weave weave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 baskets basket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 grasshoppers grasshopper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 25 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 praying pray VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 amod _ _ 27 mantises mantis NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 necklace necklace NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 38 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 41 jungle jungle NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 44 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 basking bask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 acl _ _ 49 on on ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 or or CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ _ 56 hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 55 acl _ _ 57 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ _ 59 near near ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 wallows wallow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | present | kites *= kite* | | | | then | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wake** | present | kites *= kite* *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **sleep** | present | kites *= kite* *not said here* | | | | again | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **weave** | present | kites *= kite* *not said here* | little baskets of dried grass and put grasshoppers in kites | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Product | | 5 | **dry** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **put** | participle | | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **catch** | infinitive | kites *= kite* *not said here* | two praying mantises | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantis=Theme | | 8 | **pray** | gerund | | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 9 | **make** | infinitive | kites *= kite* *not said here* | kites *= kite* | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **fight** | infinitive | kites *= kite* *not said here* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **watch** | infinitive | kites *= kite* *not said here* | a lizard or a snake | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lizard=Theme | | 12 | **bask** | gerund | a lizard or a snake *not said here* | | | a rock | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 13 | **hunt** | gerund | a snake *not said here* | a frog | | the wallows | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent frog=Theme near wallow=Location | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/89/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/)