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title: They are taken up mountains, anywhere that a mule can find a road, a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They are taken up mountains, anywhere that a mule can find a road, and they are very useful for fighting in rocky country. Who acts: mule, pieces. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 102

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They are taken up mountains, anywhere that a mule can find a road, and they are very useful for fighting in rocky country.

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**Who acts:** mule, pieces · **What happens:** take up, find, be, fight · **To what, where:** pieces, road, rocky country

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mule, pieces), 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:pg236:18:102
# text = They are taken up mountains, anywhere that a mule can find a road, and they are very useful for fighting in rocky country.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | present · passive |  | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme mountain=Destination |
| 2 | **find** | can | a mule | a road |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fight** | gerund | pieces *= piece* *not said here* |  |  | rocky country |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «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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