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title: When they came to a hill stream, Bagheera gained, because he bounded… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came to a hill stream, Bagheera gained, because he bounded across while Kaa swam, his head and two feet of his neck clearing the water, but on level ground Kaa made up the distance. Who acts: Feet, Bagheera, Kaa, neck. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, pa
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 182

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When they came to a hill stream, Bagheera gained, because he bounded across while Kaa swam, his head and two feet of his neck clearing the water, but on level ground Kaa made up the distance.

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**Who acts:** Feet, Bagheera, Kaa, neck · **What happens:** come, gain, bound, swim, clear, make up · **To what, where:** hill stream, head, water, distance, level ground

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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 (Feet, Bagheera, Kaa, neck), 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:pg236:5:182
# text = When they came to a hill stream, Bagheera gained, because he bounded across while Kaa swam, his head and two feet of his neck clearing the water, but on level ground Kaa made up the distance.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	across	across	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
36	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Feet |  |  | a hill stream |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stream=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **gain** | past | Bagheera |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **bound** | past | Bagheera |  |  |  |  | across *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **swim** | past | Kaa | Kaa's head and two feet of Kaa's neck |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Trajectory |
| 5 | **clear** | gerund | Kaa's neck *not said here* | the water |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source |
| 6 | **make up** | past | Kaa | the distance |  | level ground |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Pivot |

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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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