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title: _The Beaches of Lukannon—the winter wheat so tall— The dripping, cri… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: _The Beaches of Lukannon—the winter wheat so tall— The dripping, crinkled lichens, and the sea-fog drenching all! Who acts: sea fog. 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 29

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\_The Beaches of Lukannon—the winter wheat so tall— The dripping, crinkled lichens, and the sea-fog drenching all!

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**Who acts:** sea fog · **What happens:** crinkle, drench · **To what, where:** all

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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 (sea fog), 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:pg236:13:29
# text = _The Beaches of Lukannon—the winter wheat so tall— The dripping, crinkled lichens, and the sea-fog drenching all!
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Lukannon	Lukannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dripping	dripping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	crinkled	crinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	lichens	lichen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
24	drenching	drench	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **crinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **drench** | gerund | the sea fog *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme all=Destination |

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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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