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title: The bulls swept off as Akela bayed, and Gray Brother stopped in fron… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The bulls swept off as Akela bayed, and Gray Brother stopped in front of the cows. Who acts: bulls, Akela, Gray Brother. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 13

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The bulls swept off as Akela bayed, and Gray Brother stopped in front of the cows.

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**Who acts:** bulls, Akela, Gray Brother · **What happens:** sweep off, bay, stop · **To what, where:** front

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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 (bulls, Akela, Gray Brother), 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:pg236:9:13
# text = The bulls swept off as Akela bayed, and Gray Brother stopped in front of the cows.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Akela	Akela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bayed	bay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	Gray	Gray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	amod	_	_
11	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep off** | past | the bulls |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bay** | past | Akela |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** | past | Gray Brother |  |  | front of the cows |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location |

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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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