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title: The victory is only a matter of quickness of eye and quickness of fo… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The victory is only a matter of quickness of eye and quickness of foot--snake’s blow against mongoose’s jump--and as no eye can follow the motion of a snake’s head when it strikes, this makes things much more wonderful than any magic herb. Who acts: victory, eye, this, snake. A sentence of «The Jung
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 141

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The victory is only a matter of quickness of eye and quickness of foot--snake’s blow against mongoose’s jump--and as no eye can follow the motion of a snake’s head when it strikes, this makes things much more wonderful than any magic herb.

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**Who acts:** victory, eye, this, snake, mongoose, head · **What happens:** be, follow, strike, make, blow, jump · **To what, where:** matter, motion, things

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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 (victory, eye, this, snake), 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:pg236:13:141
# text = The victory is only a matter of quickness of eye and quickness of foot--snake’s blow against mongoose’s jump--and as no eye can follow the motion of a snake’s head when it strikes, this makes things much more wonderful than any magic herb.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	quickness	quickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	quickness	quickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
19	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	strikes	strike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	nsubj	_	_
42	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
43	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
44	much	much	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	46	advmod	_	_
46	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	_
47	than	than	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	det	_	_
49	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | the victory | a matter |  |  |  | of quickness of eye and quickness of foot and snake's blow against mongoose's jump | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | can | no eye | the motion of a snake's head |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motion=Theme |
| 3 | **strike** | present | victory |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | this | things |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
| 5 | **blow** |  | snake |  |  |  |  | against mongoose's jump | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent against=obl |
| 6 | **jump** |  | mongoose |  |  |  |  |  | nom jump «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **motion** |  | a snake's head |  |  |  |  |  | nom motion «communication 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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