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title: Some trees grew in the center of the clearing, but their bark was ru… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some trees grew in the center of the clearing, but their bark was rubbed away, and the white wood beneath showed all shiny and polished in the patches of moonlight. Who acts: trees, white wood. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 56

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Some trees grew in the center of the clearing, but their bark was rubbed away, and the white wood beneath showed all shiny and polished in the patches of moonlight.

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**Who acts:** trees, white wood · **What happens:** grow, rub away, show, polish · **To what, where:** center, bark, patches

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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 (trees, white wood), 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:pg236:17:56
# text = Some trees grew in the center of the clearing, but their bark was rubbed away, and the white wood beneath showed all shiny and polished in the patches of moonlight.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	clearing	clearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | some trees |  |  | the center of the clearing |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in center=Location |
| 2 | **rub away** | past · passive |  | trees's bark |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | past | the white wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **polish** | participle | some trees *not said here* |  |  | the patches of moonlight |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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