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title: They have their regular roads and crossroads, up hills and down hill… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They have their regular roads and crossroads, up hills and down hills, all laid out from fifty to seventy or a hundred feet above ground, and by these they can travel even at night if necessary. Who acts: People. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4, with its d
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 133

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They have their regular roads and crossroads, up hills and down hills, all laid out from fifty to seventy or a hundred feet above ground, and by these they can travel even at night if necessary.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** have, lay out, travel · **To what, where:** regular roads, fifty

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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 (People), 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:pg236:4:133
# text = They have their regular roads and crossroads, up hills and down hills, all laid out from fifty to seventy or a hundred feet above ground, and by these they can travel even at night if necessary.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	crossroads	crossroad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
16	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
26	above	above	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	obl	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
35	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | People | People's regular roads and crossroads and hills and hills and all hundred feet above ground |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
| 2 | **lay out** | participle |  |  |  | fifty to seventy |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from fifty=Material |
| 3 | **travel** | can | People |  |  |  | night | by these | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by this=Trajectory |

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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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