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title: “In the melon bed, on the end nearest the wall, where the sun strike… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “In the melon bed, on the end nearest the wall, where the sun strikes nearly all day. Who acts: sun. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 127

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“In the melon bed, on the end nearest the wall, where the sun strikes nearly all day.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** strike

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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:pg236:14:127
# text = “In the melon bed, on the end nearest the wall, where the sun strikes nearly all day.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	strikes	strike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** *in a quote* | present | the sun |  |  |  | day |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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