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title: Day after day Mowgli would lead the buffaloes out to their wallows,… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Day after day Mowgli would lead the buffaloes out to their wallows, and day after day he would see Gray Brother’s back a mile and a half away across the plain (so he knew that Shere Khan had not come back), and day after day he would lie on the grass listening to the noises round him, and dreaming o
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 91

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Day after day Mowgli would lead the buffaloes out to their wallows, and day after day he would see Gray Brother’s back a mile and a half away across the plain (so he knew that Shere Khan had not come back), and day after day he would lie on the grass listening to the noises round him, and dreaming of old days in the jungle.

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**Who acts:** Day, Mowgli, Brother, Shere, grass · **What happens:** lead, see, know, not come back, lie, listen · **To what, where:** buffaloes, grass, jungle

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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 (Day, Mowgli, Brother, Shere), 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:pg236:8:91
# text = Day after day Mowgli would lead the buffaloes out to their wallows, and day after day he would see Gray Brother’s back a mile and a half away across the plain (so he knew that Shere Khan had not come back), and day after day he would lie on the grass listening to the noises round him, and dreaming of old days in the jungle.
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wallows	wallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
21	Gray	Gray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	amod	_	_
22	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	26	conj	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
31	across	across	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
39	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
40	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	_
44	back	back	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
48	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl:unmarked	_	_
49	after	after	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	56	acl	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	_
61	round	round	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
68	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obl	_	_
69	in	in	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
71	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | would | Day after day | the buffaloes |  |  |  | out *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | would | Mowgli |  |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **know** | past | Brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **come back** | past | Shere |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lie** | would | Shere |  |  | the grass | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location |
| 6 | **listen** | gerund | the grass *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the noises round Gray | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to noise=Theme |
| 7 | **dream** | gerund | Day after day *not said here* |  |  | the jungle | day |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

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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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