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title: The next thing he remembered was feeling hands on his legs and arms-… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next thing he remembered was feeling hands on his legs and arms--hard, strong, little hands--and then a swash of branches in his face, and then he was staring down through the swaying boughs as Baloo woke the jungle with his deep cries and Bagheera bounded up the trunk with every tooth bared. Wh
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 128

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The next thing he remembered was feeling hands on his legs and arms--hard, strong, little hands--and then a swash of branches in his face, and then he was staring down through the swaying boughs as Baloo woke the jungle with his deep cries and Bagheera bounded up the trunk with every tooth bared.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli, next thing, Baloo, Bagheera, tooth · **What happens:** remember, feel, stare down, sway, wake, bound up · **To what, where:** next thing, hands, legs, jungle, trunk, branches

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, next thing, Baloo, Bagheera), 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:pg236:4:128
# text = The next thing he remembered was feeling hands on his legs and arms--hard, strong, little hands--and then a swash of branches in his face, and then he was staring down through the swaying boughs as Baloo woke the jungle with his deep cries and Bagheera bounded up the trunk with every tooth bared.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	swash	swash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
37	down	down	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	through	through	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	swaying	sway	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	amod	_	_
41	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
54	up	up	ADP	RP	_	53	compound:prt	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
57	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
58	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	59	det	_	_
59	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
60	bared	bare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | Mowgli | the next thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | past · progressive | the next thing | hands |  | Mowgli's legs and arms |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on leg=Location |
| 3 | **stare down** | past · progressive | Mowgli |  |  |  | then | through the swaying boughs; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through bough=Theme |
| 4 | **sway** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wake** | past | Baloo | the jungle |  |  |  | with Mowgli's deep cries | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent jungle=Patient with cry=Instrument |
| 6 | **bound up** | past | Bagheera | the trunk |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location trunk=Theme |
| 7 | **bare** | past | every tooth |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **swash** |  |  | branches |  | Mowgli's face |  |  | nom swash «event transitive»: of=patient in=place |
| 9 | **cry** |  | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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