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title: Akela and Gray Brother ran to and fro nipping the buffaloes’ legs, a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Akela and Gray Brother ran to and fro nipping the buffaloes’ legs, and though the herd wheeled once to charge up the ravine again, Mowgli managed to turn Rama, and the others followed him to the wallows. Who acts: Akela, Mowgli, herd, others. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The J
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 69

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Akela and Gray Brother ran to and fro nipping the buffaloes’ legs, and though the herd wheeled once to charge up the ravine again, Mowgli managed to turn Rama, and the others followed him to the wallows.

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**Who acts:** Akela, Mowgli, herd, others · **What happens:** run, nip, wheel, charge up, manage, turn · **To what, where:** legs, ravine, Rama, wallows

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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 (Akela, Mowgli, herd, others), 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:pg236:9:69
# text = Akela and Gray Brother ran to and fro nipping the buffaloes’ legs, and though the herd wheeled once to charge up the ravine again, Mowgli managed to turn Rama, and the others followed him to the wallows.
1	Akela	Akela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	Gray	Gray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	amod	_	_
4	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
8	fro	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	nipping	nip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wheeled	wheel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
28	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	wallows	wallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Akela and Gray Brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **nip** | gerund | Mowgli *not said here* | the buffaloes's legs |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location leg=Theme |
| 3 | **wheel** | past | the herd |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **charge up** | to-infinitive | the herd *not said here* | the ravine |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location ravine=Theme |
| 5 | **manage** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **turn** | to-infinitive | Mowgli *not said here* | Rama |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme rama=Result |
| 7 | **follow** | past | the others | Rama |  | the wallows |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to wallow=Trajectory |

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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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