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title: Baloo looked up to see where the voice came from, and there was Rann… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Baloo looked up to see where the voice came from, and there was Rann the Kite, sweeping down with the sun shining on the upturned flanges of his wings. Who acts: Baloo, voice, Rann, sun. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 150

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Baloo looked up to see where the voice came from, and there was Rann the Kite, sweeping down with the sun shining on the upturned flanges of his wings.

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**Who acts:** Baloo, voice, Rann, sun · **What happens:** look up, see, come, be, sweep down, shine · **To what, where:** upturned flanges

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baloo, voice, Rann, sun), 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:pg236:5:150
# text = Baloo looked up to see where the voice came from, and there was Rann the Kite, sweeping down with the sun shining on the upturned flanges of his wings.
1	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	Rann	Rann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Kite	Kite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	upturned	upturned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	flanges	flange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** | past | Baloo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Baloo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | past | the voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | Rann |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sweep down** | gerund | Rann *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the sun; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **shine** | gerund | the sun *not said here* |  |  | the upturned flanges of Rann's wings |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flange=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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