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title: The moon, o’er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon, o’er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between. Who acts: moon, hollows. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 100

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The moon, o’er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between.

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**Who acts:** moon, hollows · **What happens:** look, find, rustle · **To what, where:** us, rest

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, hollows), 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:pg236:10:100
# text = The moon, o’er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	combers	comber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	downward	downward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	At	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hollows	hollow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rustle	rustle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | the moon |  |  |  |  | downward *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | the moon *not said here* | us |  | rest in the hollows |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Theme at rest=Asset |
| 3 | **rustle** | present | the hollows |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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