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title: He spent all that day roaming over the house. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He spent all that day roaming over the house. Who acts: Tikki. 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 81

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He spent all that day roaming over the house.

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**Who acts:** Tikki · **What happens:** spend, roam · **To what, where:** house

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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 (Tikki), 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:pg236:13:81
# text = He spent all that day roaming over the house.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	roaming	roam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | Tikki |  |  |  | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **roam** | gerund | Tikki *not said here* |  |  | the house |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over house=Trajectory |

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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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