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title: But within the limits of the clearing there was not a single blade o… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But within the limits of the clearing there was not a single blade of green--nothing but the trampled earth. 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 58

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But within the limits of the clearing there was not a single blade of green--nothing but the trampled earth.

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**What happens:** not be, trample · **To what, where:** single blade

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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: 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:pg236:17:58
# text = But within the limits of the clearing there was not a single blade of green--nothing but the trampled earth.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	within	within	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clearing	clearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nmod	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	trampled	trample	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past |  | a single blade |  |  |  | of nothing | tree rules |
| 2 | **trample** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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