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title: Sometimes a mother would push her cub far out into the moonlight to… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes a mother would push her cub far out into the moonlight to be sure that he had not been overlooked. Who acts: mother. 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 157

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Sometimes a mother would push her cub far out into the moonlight to be sure that he had not been overlooked.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** push, be, not overlook · **To what, where:** cub, moonlight, little

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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: who acts (mother), 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:pg236:1:157
# text = Sometimes a mother would push her cub far out into the moonlight to be sure that he had not been overlooked.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	overlooked	overlook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | would | a mother | Mother's cub |  | the moonlight |  | out, sometimes *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cub=Theme into moonlight=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **overlook** | past · perfect · passive |  | little |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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