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title: That was made already, six feet wide, in front of him, where the ben… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That was made already, six feet wide, in front of him, where the bent jungle-grass was trying to recover itself and stand up. Who acts: bent jungle grass. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 50

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That was made already, six feet wide, in front of him, where the bent jungle-grass was trying to recover itself and stand up.

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**Who acts:** bent jungle grass · **What happens:** make, try, recover, stand up · **To what, where:** That, front

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bent jungle grass), 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:pg236:17:50
# text = That was made already, six feet wide, in front of him, where the bent jungle-grass was trying to recover itself and stand up.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	already	already	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | That |  | front of Kala |  | wide *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **try** | past · progressive | the bent jungle grass |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **recover** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the bent jungle grass *not said here* | front |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 4 | **stand up** | infinitive | the bent jungle grass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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