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title: But they came to the Council Rock, all that were left of them, and s… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But they came to the Council Rock, all that were left of them, and saw Shere Khan’s striped hide on the rock, and the huge claws dangling at the end of the empty dangling feet. Who acts: feet, huge claws. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10, with its dependen
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 6

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But they came to the Council Rock, all that were left of them, and saw Shere Khan’s striped hide on the rock, and the huge claws dangling at the end of the empty dangling feet.

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**Who acts:** feet, huge claws · **What happens:** come, leave, see, stripe, dangle · **To what, where:** Council Rock, that, striped hide, rock, end

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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 (feet, huge claws), 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:pg236:10:6
# text = But they came to the Council Rock, all that were left of them, and saw Shere Khan’s striped hide on the rock, and the huge claws dangling at the end of the empty dangling feet.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rock	Rock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	Shere	Shere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
21	striped	stripe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	dangling	dangle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	dangling	dangle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	amod	_	_
39	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | feet *= foot* |  |  | the Council Rock |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **leave** | past · passive |  | that |  |  |  | of feet *= foot* | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of they=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | past | feet *= foot* *not said here* | Shere's striped hide |  | the rock |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hide=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stripe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dangle** | gerund | the huge claws |  |  |  | at the end of the empty dangling feet |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
| 6 | **dangle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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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