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title: The other herd children, watching with the cattle half a mile away,… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The other herd children, watching with the cattle half a mile away, hurried to the village as fast as their legs could carry them, crying that the buffaloes had gone mad and run away. Who acts: other herd children, legs, buffaloes. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book,
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 31

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The other herd children, watching with the cattle half a mile away, hurried to the village as fast as their legs could carry them, crying that the buffaloes had gone mad and run away.

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**Who acts:** other herd children, legs, buffaloes · **What happens:** watch, hurry, carry, cry, go, run away · **To what, where:** mile, village, children · **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 (other herd children, legs, buffaloes), 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:pg236:9:31
# text = The other herd children, watching with the cattle half a mile away, hurried to the village as fast as their legs could carry them, crying that the buffaloes had gone mad and run away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	ccomp	_	_
34	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
37	away	away	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund | the other herd children | half mile |  |  |  | with the cattle; away *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurry** | participle | the other herd children *not said here* |  |  | the village |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination |
| 3 | **carry** | could | children's legs | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | children's legs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **go** | past · perfect | the buffaloes |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **run away** | present | the buffaloes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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