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title: It was near Rann’s bedtime, but he had ranged all over the jungle lo… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was near Rann’s bedtime, but he had ranged all over the jungle looking for the Bear and had missed him in the thick foliage. Who acts: voice, Rann, jungle. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 151

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It was near Rann’s bedtime, but he had ranged all over the jungle looking for the Bear and had missed him in the thick foliage.

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**Who acts:** voice, Rann, jungle · **What happens:** be, range, look, miss · **To what, where:** bedtime, jungle, Rann, thick foliage

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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 (voice, Rann, jungle), 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:pg236:5:151
# text = It was near Rann’s bedtime, but he had ranged all over the jungle looking for the Bear and had missed him in the thick foliage.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Rann	Rann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	ranged	range	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	missed	miss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | voice |  |  | Rann's bedtime |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **range** | past · perfect | Rann | the jungle |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jungle=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the jungle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Bear | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bear=Theme |
| 4 | **miss** | past · perfect | Rann *not said here* | Rann |  | the thick foliage |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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