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title: There was a murmur like the ripple of the tide all up and down the b… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a murmur like the ripple of the tide all up and down the beaches. Who acts: murmur, tide. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 11

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There was a murmur like the ripple of the tide all up and down the beaches.

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**Who acts:** murmur, tide · **What happens:** be, ripple

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (murmur, tide), 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:pg236:13:11
# text = There was a murmur like the ripple of the tide all up and down the beaches.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ripple	ripple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a murmur like the ripple of the tide |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ripple** |  | the tide |  |  |  |  |  | nom ripple «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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