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title: Buldeo, who was still stooping over Shere Khan’s head, found himself… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Buldeo, who was still stooping over Shere Khan’s head, found himself sprawling on the grass, with a gray wolf standing over him, while Mowgli went on skinning as though he were alone in all India. Who acts: Buldeo, gray wolf, Mowgli. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Boo
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 101

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Buldeo, who was still stooping over Shere Khan’s head, found himself sprawling on the grass, with a gray wolf standing over him, while Mowgli went on skinning as though he were alone in all India.

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**Who acts:** Buldeo, gray wolf, Mowgli · **What happens:** stoop, find, sprawl, stand, go on, skin · **To what, where:** head, Buldeo, grass, India

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buldeo, gray wolf, Mowgli), 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:pg236:9:101
# text = Buldeo, who was still stooping over Shere Khan’s head, found himself sprawling on the grass, with a gray wolf standing over him, while Mowgli went on skinning as though he were alone in all India.
1	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	sprawling	sprawl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	skinning	skin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	ccomp	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
40	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | past · progressive | Buldeo |  |  | Shere's head | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over head=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | Buldeo | Buldeo |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 3 | **sprawl** | gerund | Buldeo *not said here* |  |  | the grass |  | with a gray wolf | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | a gray wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over Buldeo | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location |
| 5 | **go on** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **skin** | gerund | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is** | past | Mowgli |  |  | all India |  | alone *property* | tree rules |

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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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