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title: See our line across the plain, Like a heel-rope bent again, Reaching… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: See our line across the plain, Like a heel-rope bent again, Reaching, writhing, rolling far, Sweeping all away to war! Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 21, sentence 3

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See our line across the plain, Like a heel-rope bent again, Reaching, writhing, rolling far, Sweeping all away to war!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, bend, reach, roll, sweep · **To what, where:** line, plain, heel rope, writhing

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg236:21:3
# text = See our line across the plain, Like a heel-rope bent again, Reaching, writhing, rolling far, Sweeping all away to war!
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	writhing	writhing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | our line |  | the plain |  | like a heel rope | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer line=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bend** | participle |  | a heel rope *not said here* |  |  | again |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reach** | gerund | you *not said here* | writhing |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent writhing=Theme |
| 4 | **roll** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sweep** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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