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title: At last a day came when he did not see Gray Brother at the signal pl… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last a day came when he did not see Gray Brother at the signal place, and he laughed and headed the buffaloes for the ravine by the dhk tree, which was all covered with golden-red flowers. Who acts: Shere. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8, with its depen
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 93

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At last a day came when he did not see Gray Brother at the signal place, and he laughed and headed the buffaloes for the ravine by the dhk tree, which was all covered with golden-red flowers.

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**Who acts:** Shere · **What happens:** come, not see, laugh, head, cover · **To what, where:** Gray Brother, signal place, buffaloes, dhk tree

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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 (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:pg236:8:93
# text = At last a day came when he did not see Gray Brother at the signal place, and he laughed and headed the buffaloes for the ravine by the dhk tree, which was all covered with golden-red flowers.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	Gray	Gray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	amod	_	_
12	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	headed	head	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	dhk	dhk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | Shere | Gray Brother |  | the signal place |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
| 3 | **laugh** | past | Shere |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **head** | past | Shere *not said here* | the buffaloes |  |  |  | for the ravine; by the dhk tree | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme |
| 5 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the dhk tree |  |  |  | with golden red flowers; all *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flower=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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