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title: The children had told the village about the buffalo stampede, and Bu… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The children had told the village about the buffalo stampede, and Buldeo went out angrily, only too anxious to correct Mowgli for not taking better care of the herd. Who acts: Buldeo, herd. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 79

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The children had told the village about the buffalo stampede, and Buldeo went out angrily, only too anxious to correct Mowgli for not taking better care of the herd.

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**Who acts:** Buldeo, herd · **What happens:** tell, go out, correct, not take, care · **To what, where:** children, Mowgli, better care · **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 (Buldeo, herd), 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:pg236:9:79
# text = The children had told the village about the buffalo stampede, and Buldeo went out angrily, only too anxious to correct Mowgli for not taking better care of the herd.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	stampede	stampede	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Buldeo	Buldeo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	correct	correct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
27	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the children |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient village=Topic |
| 2 | **go out** | past | Buldeo |  |  |  |  | angrily, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive | Buldeo *not said here* |  | Mowgli |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mowgli=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **take** | gerund | Buldeo *not said here* | better care of the herd |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 5 | **care** |  | the herd |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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