--- title: Then they sing long, long songs with odd native quavers at the end o… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then they sing long, long songs with odd native quavers at the end of them, and the day seems longer than most people’s whole lives, and perhaps they make a mud castle with mud figures of men and horses and buffaloes, and put reeds into the men’s hands, and pretend that they are kings and the figure --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/89/) [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/) / 89 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 89 Then they sing long, long songs with odd native quavers at the end of them, and the day seems longer than most people’s whole lives, and perhaps they make a mud castle with mud figures of men and horses and buffaloes, and put reeds into the men’s hands, and pretend that they are kings and the figures are their armies, or that they are gods to be worshiped. **Who acts:** kites, day, kings · **What happens:** sing, seem, make, put, reed, pretend · **To what, where:** long long songs, mud castle, hands, kings, armies, gods 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 (kites, day, kings), 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:pg236:8:89 # text = Then they sing long, long songs with odd native quavers at the end of them, and the day seems longer than most people’s whole lives, and perhaps they make a mud castle with mud figures of men and horses and buffaloes, and put reeds into the men’s hands, and pretend that they are kings and the figures are their armies, or that they are gods to be worshiped. 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 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 quavers quaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’s 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 buffaloes buffalo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 csubj _ _ 49 reeds reed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 50 into into ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ’s 's PART POS _ 52 case _ _ 54 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 pretend pretend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 58 that that SCONJ IN _ 61 mark _ _ 59 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 nsubj _ _ 60 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 61 cop _ _ 61 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 67 nsubj _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 conj _ _ 65 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 67 cop _ _ 66 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 67 nmod:poss _ _ 67 armies army NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 68 , , PUNCT , _ 76 punct _ _ 69 or or CCONJ CC _ 76 cc _ _ 70 that that SCONJ IN _ 76 mark _ _ 71 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 73 nsubj _ _ 72 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 73 cop _ _ 73 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 76 nsubj:pass _ _ 74 to to PART TO _ 76 mark _ _ 75 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 76 aux:pass _ _ 76 worshiped worship VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 77 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | kites *= kite* | long long songs | | | then | with odd native quavers at the end of quavers | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 2 | **seem** | present | the day | | | | | long *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | kites *= kite* | a mud castle | | | | with mud figures of men and horses and buffaloes; perhaps *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset castle=Product | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **reed** | present | | | | the men's hands | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pretend** | present | kites *= kite* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | present | kites *= kite* | kings and the figures | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** | present | kings and the figures | kites's armies | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **is a** | present | kites *= kite* | gods | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **worship** | to-infinitive · passive | | gods | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 11 | **figure** | | | men and horses and buffaloes | | | | | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/90/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/8/)