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title: Sometimes he could see for miles and miles across the still green ju… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes he could see for miles and miles across the still green jungle, as a man on the top of a mast can see for miles across the sea, and then the branches and leaves would lash him across the face, and he and his two guards would be almost down to earth again. Who acts: Mowgli, man, branches. A
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 138

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Sometimes he could see for miles and miles across the still green jungle, as a man on the top of a mast can see for miles across the sea, and then the branches and leaves would lash him across the face, and he and his two guards would be almost down to earth again.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli, man, branches · **What happens:** see, lash, be · **To what, where:** green jungle, sea, Mowgli, face

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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, man, branches), 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:pg236:4:138
# text = Sometimes he could see for miles and miles across the still green jungle, as a man on the top of a mast can see for miles across the sea, and then the branches and leaves would lash him across the face, and he and his two guards would be almost down to earth again.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	across	across	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
33	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	lash	lash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	across	across	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
51	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
52	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	cop	_	_
53	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
57	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | Mowgli |  |  | the green jungle | again | for miles and miles; sometimes *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **see** | can | a man on the top of a mast |  |  | the sea |  | for miles | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **lash** | would | the branches and leaves | Mowgli |  | the face | then |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | would | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | to earth; almost, down *property* | tree rules |

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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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