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title: His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thinnest topmos… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thinnest topmost branches crackle and bend under them, and then with a cough and a whoop would fling themselves into the air outward and downward, and bring up, hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree. Who acts: es
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 137

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His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thinnest topmost branches crackle and bend under them, and then with a cough and a whoop would fling themselves into the air outward and downward, and bring up, hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree.

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**Who acts:** escort, Mowgli, thinnest topmost branches, cough · **What happens:** rush up, feel, crackle, bend, fling, bring up · **To what, where:** Mowgli, cough, air

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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 (escort, Mowgli, thinnest topmost branches, cough), 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:pg236:4:137
# text = His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thinnest topmost branches crackle and bend under them, and then with a cough and a whoop would fling themselves into the air outward and downward, and bring up, hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	escort	escort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rush	rush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	thinnest	thin	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	topmost	topmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	crackle	crackle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bend	bend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	whoop	whoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	fling	fling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
32	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	outward	outward	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	downward	downward	ADV	RB	_	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	conj	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	54	amod	_	_
54	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush up** | would | Mowgli's escort | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **crackle** | present | the thinnest topmost branches |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bend** | present | the thinnest topmost branches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | under teeth *= tooth* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under they=Location |
| 5 | **fling** | would | a cough and a whoop | cough |  | the air |  | outward *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme into air=Destination |
| 6 | **bring up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hang** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by teeth's hands or teeth's feet; to the lower limbs of the next tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hand=Location |

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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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