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title: Mowgli was far and far through the forest, running hard, and his hea… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Mowgli was far and far through the forest, running hard, and his heart was hot in him. Who acts: Mowgli, forest, heart. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 143

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Mowgli was far and far through the forest, running hard, and his heart was hot in him.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli, forest, heart · **What happens:** be, run · **To what, where:** forest

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, forest, heart), 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:pg236:2:143
# text = Mowgli was far and far through the forest, running hard, and his heart was hot in him.
1	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Mowgli |  |  | the forest |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | the forest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Mowgli's heart |  |  |  |  | in Mowgli; hot *property* | 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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