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title: Then evening comes and the children call, and the buffaloes lumber u… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then evening comes and the children call, and the buffaloes lumber up out of the sticky mud with noises like gunshots going off one after the other, and they all string across the gray plain back to the twinkling village lights. Who acts: evening, children, buffaloes, gunshots. A sentence of «The Ju
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 90

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Then evening comes and the children call, and the buffaloes lumber up out of the sticky mud with noises like gunshots going off one after the other, and they all string across the gray plain back to the twinkling village lights.

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**Who acts:** evening, children, buffaloes, gunshots · **What happens:** come, call, lumber up, go off, plain back, twinkle · **To what, where:** sticky mud, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (evening, children, buffaloes, gunshots), 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:pg236:8:90
# text = Then evening comes and the children call, and the buffaloes lumber up out of the sticky mud with noises like gunshots going off one after the other, and they all string across the gray plain back to the twinkling village lights.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lumber	lumber	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	gunshots	gunshot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	across	across	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	plain	plain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	twinkling	twinkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	amod	_	_
42	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | evening |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present | the children |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lumber up** | infinitive | the buffaloes |  |  | the sticky mud with noises like gunshots |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out mud=Trajectory |
| 4 | **go off** | gerund | gunshots *not said here* | one after the other |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **plain back** | present | buffaloes *= buffalo* |  |  |  |  | to the twinkling village lights | tree rules |
| 6 | **twinkle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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