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title: Eye to eye and head to head, (_Keep the measure, Nag. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Eye to eye and head to head, (_Keep the measure, Nag. Who acts: Eye. 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 41

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Eye to eye and head to head, (\_Keep the measure, Nag.

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**Who acts:** Eye · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** measure

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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 (Eye), 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:pg236:13:41
# text = Eye to eye and head to head, (_Keep the measure, Nag.
1	Eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Nag	Nag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | infinitive | Eye and head to head | the measure |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent measure=Theme nag=Attribute |

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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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