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title: The morning broke in one sheet of pale yellow behind the green hills… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The morning broke in one sheet of pale yellow behind the green hills, and the booming stopped with the first ray, as though the light had been an order. Who acts: morning, booming, light. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 89

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The morning broke in one sheet of pale yellow behind the green hills, and the booming stopped with the first ray, as though the light had been an order.

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**Who acts:** morning, booming, light · **What happens:** break, stop, be · **To what, where:** one sheet, order

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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 (morning, booming, light), 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:pg236:17:89
# text = The morning broke in one sheet of pale yellow behind the green hills, and the booming stopped with the first ray, as though the light had been an order.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	yellow	yellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	booming	booming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | the morning |  |  | one sheet of pale yellow |  | behind the green hills | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sheet=Location |
| 2 | **stop** | past | the booming |  |  |  |  | with the first ray | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with ray=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past · perfect | the light | a order |  |  |  |  | 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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