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title: _The song of pleasant stations beside the salt lagoons, The song of… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: _The song of pleasant stations beside the salt lagoons, The song of blowing squadrons that shuffled down the dunes, The song of midnight dances that churned the sea to flame— The Beaches of Lukannon—before the sealers came! Who acts: blowing squadrons, midnight dances, sealers, pleasant stations. A 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 25

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\_The song of pleasant stations beside the salt lagoons, The song of blowing squadrons that shuffled down the dunes, The song of midnight dances that churned the sea to flame— The Beaches of Lukannon—before the sealers came!

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**Who acts:** blowing squadrons, midnight dances, sealers, pleasant stations · **What happens:** shuffle down, churn, come, sing · **To what, where:** dunes, sea

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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 (blowing squadrons, midnight dances, sealers, pleasant stations), 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:pg236:13:25
# text = _The song of pleasant stations beside the salt lagoons, The song of blowing squadrons that shuffled down the dunes, The song of midnight dances that churned the sea to flame— The Beaches of Lukannon—before the sealers came!
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	lagoons	lagoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	blowing	blowing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	squadrons	squadron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	shuffled	shuffle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	churned	churn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
35	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Lukannon	Lukannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sealers	sealer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shuffle down** | past | blowing squadrons | the dunes |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dune=Patient |
| 2 | **churn** | past | midnight dances | the sea |  |  |  | flame *obl* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Product |
| 3 | **come** | past | the sealers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** |  | pleasant stations beside the salt lagoons and the song of blowing squadrons |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **sing** |  | blowing squadrons |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **sing** |  | midnight dances |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «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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