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title: Then they banged the temple bells and blew the conches louder than e… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they banged the temple bells and blew the conches louder than ever. Who acts: villagers. 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 172

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Then they banged the temple bells and blew the conches louder than ever.

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**Who acts:** villagers · **What happens:** bang, blow · **To what, where:** temple bells, conches

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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 (villagers), 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:pg236:9:172
# text = Then they banged the temple bells and blew the conches louder than ever.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	banged	bang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	conches	conche	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bang** | past | villagers *= villager* | the temple bells |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** | past | villagers *= villager* *not said here* | the conches |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent conche=Patient |

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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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