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title: Away to the northward, out to sea, ran a line of bars and shoals and… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 74

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Away to the northward, out to sea, ran a line of bars and shoals and rocks that would never let a ship come within six miles of the beach, and between the islands and the mainland was a stretch of deep water that ran up to the perpendicular cliffs, and somewhere below the cliffs was the mouth of the tunnel.

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**Who acts:** rocks, mainland, deep water · **What happens:** run, not let, come, be, run up · **To what, where:** line, sea, rocks, stretch, mouth

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocks, mainland, deep water), 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:pg236:12:74
# text = Away to the northward, out to sea, ran a line of bars and shoals and rocks that would never let a ship come within six miles of the beach, and between the islands and the mainland was a stretch of deep water that ran up to the perpendicular cliffs, and somewhere below the cliffs was the mouth of the tunnel.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	shoals	shoal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	within	within	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	between	between	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	stretch	stretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	up	up	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	perpendicular	perpendicular	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
55	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	61	advmod	_	_
56	below	below	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	_
59	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	cop	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past |  | a line of bars and shoals and rocks |  | the sea |  | between the islands and a stretch and the mouth; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent line=Theme to sea=Initial\_Location between island=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **let** | would |  | rocks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | rocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within six miles of the beach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the mainland | a stretch |  |  |  | of deep water | tree rules |
| 5 | **run up** | past | deep water |  |  |  |  | to the perpendicular cliffs *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cliff=Result |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | the mouth |  |  |  | of the tunnel; somewhere *property* | tree rules |

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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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