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title: But it was all one gigantic jar that ran through him--this stamp of… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was all one gigantic jar that ran through him--this stamp of hundreds of heavy feet on the raw earth. Who acts: dew, one gigantic jar. 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 82

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But it was all one gigantic jar that ran through him--this stamp of hundreds of heavy feet on the raw earth.

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**Who acts:** dew, one gigantic jar · **What happens:** be, run · **To what, where:** one gigantic jar

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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 (dew, one gigantic jar), 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:pg236:17:82
# text = But it was all one gigantic jar that ran through him--this stamp of hundreds of heavy feet on the raw earth.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	stamp	stamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | dew | one gigantic jar and this stamp of hundreds of heavy feet on the raw earth |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | past | one gigantic jar and this stamp of hundreds of heavy feet on the raw earth |  |  |  |  | through Toomai | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through he=Trajectory |

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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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