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title: He was scratched and bleeding in twenty places; one eye was almost o… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was scratched and bleeding in twenty places; one eye was almost out, and his sides were torn to ribbons. Who acts: one eye. 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 130

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He was scratched and bleeding in twenty places; one eye was almost out, and his sides were torn to ribbons.

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**Who acts:** one eye · **What happens:** scratch, bleed, be, tear · **To what, where:** Catch, twenty places, sides

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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 (one eye), 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:pg236:10:130
# text = He was scratched and bleeding in twenty places; one eye was almost out, and his sides were torn to ribbons.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	scratched	scratch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scratch** | past · passive |  | Catch |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **bleed** | gerund |  |  |  | twenty places |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **is** | past | one eye |  |  |  |  | almost, out *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tear** | past · passive |  | Catch's sides |  |  |  | to ribbons *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to ribbon=Result |

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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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