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title: The first part of the review was all sunshine, and the regiments wen… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The first part of the review was all sunshine, and the regiments went by in wave upon wave of legs all moving together, and guns all in a line, till our eyes grew dizzy. Who acts: first part, regiments, wave, guns. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with it
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 144

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The first part of the review was all sunshine, and the regiments went by in wave upon wave of legs all moving together, and guns all in a line, till our eyes grew dizzy.

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**Who acts:** first part, regiments, wave, guns · **What happens:** be, go, move together, grow, wave · **To what, where:** sunshine, legs

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first part, regiments, wave, guns), 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:pg236:20:144
# text = The first part of the review was all sunshine, and the regiments went by in wave upon wave of legs all moving together, and guns all in a line, till our eyes grew dizzy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	review	review	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	regiments	regiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
24	together	together	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
27	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	till	till	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
37	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the first part of the review | all sunshine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | the regiments |  |  |  |  | by wave upon wave of legs | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by wave=Location |
| 3 | **move together** | gerund | wave of legs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | all, together *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | past | guns in a line |  |  |  |  | dizzy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wave** |  |  | legs |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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