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title: Now there is a cloud coming to cover that moon. — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there is a cloud coming to cover that moon. Who acts: cloud. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 41

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Now there is a cloud coming to cover that moon.

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**Who acts:** cloud · **What happens:** be, come, cover · **To what, where:** moon

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloud), 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:pg236:6:41
# text = Now there is a cloud coming to cover that moon.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a cloud |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | a cloud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | to-infinitive | a cloud *not said here* | that moon |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moon=Destination |

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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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