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title: The moonlight was blocked out of the mouth of the cave, for Shere Kh… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The moonlight was blocked out of the mouth of the cave, for Shere Khan’s great square head and shoulders were thrust into the entrance. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 101

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The moonlight was blocked out of the mouth of the cave, for Shere Khan’s great square head and shoulders were thrust into the entrance.

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**What happens:** block out, be · **To what, where:** moonlight, mouth, head thrust

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg236:1:101
# text = The moonlight was blocked out of the mouth of the cave, for Shere Khan’s great square head and shoulders were thrust into the entrance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **block out** | past · passive |  | the moonlight |  | the mouth of the cave |  | into the entrance | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | head thrust |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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