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title: Halfway up the hill he met Bagheera with the morning dew shining lik… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Halfway up the hill he met Bagheera with the morning dew shining like moonstones on his coat. Who acts: Mowgli, morning dew. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 22

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Halfway up the hill he met Bagheera with the morning dew shining like moonstones on his coat.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli, morning dew · **What happens:** meet, shine · **To what, where:** Bagheera

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, morning dew), 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:pg236:3:22
# text = Halfway up the hill he met Bagheera with the morning dew shining like moonstones on his coat.
1	Halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	moonstones	moonstone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Mowgli | Bagheera |  |  |  | up the hill; with the morning dew; halfway *property* | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bagheera=Theme with dew=Instrument |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund | the morning dew *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like moonstones on Mowgli's coat | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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