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title: Then the advance stopped dead, the ground stood still, the whole lin… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the advance stopped dead, the ground stood still, the whole line saluted, and thirty bands began to play all together. Who acts: advance, ground, whole line, thirty bands. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 160

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Then the advance stopped dead, the ground stood still, the whole line saluted, and thirty bands began to play all together.

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**Who acts:** advance, ground, whole line, thirty bands · **What happens:** stop, stand, salute, begin, play

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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 (advance, ground, whole line, thirty bands), 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:pg236:20:160
# text = Then the advance stopped dead, the ground stood still, the whole line saluted, and thirty bands began to play all together.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saluted	salute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | the advance |  |  |  | then | dead *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the ground |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **salute** | past | the whole line |  |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | past | thirty bands |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **play** | to-infinitive | thirty bands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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