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title: And Messua cried, and Buldeo embroidered the story of his adventures… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And Messua cried, and Buldeo embroidered the story of his adventures in the jungle, till he ended by saying that Akela stood up on his hind legs and talked like a man. Who acts: Messua, Buldeo, Akela. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9, with its dependency tr
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 173

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And Messua cried, and Buldeo embroidered the story of his adventures in the jungle, till he ended by saying that Akela stood up on his hind legs and talked like a man.

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**Who acts:** Messua, Buldeo, Akela · **What happens:** cry, embroider, end, say, stand up, talk · **To what, where:** story, hind legs, jungle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Messua, Buldeo, Akela), 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:pg236:9:173
# text = And Messua cried, and Buldeo embroidered the story of his adventures in the jungle, till he ended by saying that Akela stood up on his hind legs and talked like a man.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Messua	Messua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	Akela	Akela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Messua |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **embroider** | past | Buldeo | the story of Messua's adventures in the jungle |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Product |
| 3 | **end** | past | Buldeo |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Buldeo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **stand up** | past | Akela |  |  | Messua's hind legs |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
| 6 | **talk** | participle | Akela *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **adventure** |  | Messua |  |  | the jungle |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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