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title: It was a large garden, only half cultivated, with bushes, as big as… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a large garden, only half cultivated, with bushes, as big as summer-houses, of Marshal Niel roses, lime and orange trees, clumps of bamboos, and thickets of high grass. Who acts: garden, large garden. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its depen
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 95

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It was a large garden, only half cultivated, with bushes, as big as summer-houses, of Marshal Niel roses, lime and orange trees, clumps of bamboos, and thickets of high grass.

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**Who acts:** garden, large garden · **What happens:** be, cultivate · **To what, where:** large garden, bushes

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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 (garden, large garden), 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:pg236:13:95
# text = It was a large garden, only half cultivated, with bushes, as big as summer-houses, of Marshal Niel roses, lime and orange trees, clumps of bamboos, and thickets of high grass.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	advmod	_	_
9	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Marshal	Marshal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	Niel	Niel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	clumps	clump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	bamboos	bamboo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | garden | a large garden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cultivate** | participle | a large garden *not said here* | bushes |  |  |  | of Marshal roses and lime and orange trees and clumps of bamboos; half *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Product |

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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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