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title: The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass. Who acts: whine, humming purr. 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 59

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The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass.

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**Who acts:** whine, humming purr · **What happens:** change, seem, come, sort · **To what, where:** quarter, humming purr

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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 (whine, humming purr), 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:pg236:1:59
# text = The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whine	whine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	humming	humming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	purr	purr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · perfect | the whine |  |  |  |  | to a sort of humming purr *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to sort=Result |
| 2 | **seem** | past | humming purr |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | humming purr *not said here* |  |  | every quarter of the compass |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from quarter=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sort** |  |  | humming purr |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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