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title: Down hoods all!” said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India b… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Down hoods all!” said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras). Who acts: ruin, old summerhouse. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency tre
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 65

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Down hoods all!” said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).

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**Who acts:** ruin, old summerhouse · **What happens:** hood, say, become, dwell, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ruin, old summerhouse), 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:pg236:6:65
# text = Down hoods all!” said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hoods	hood	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	ccomp	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	summerhouse	summerhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	cobras	cobra	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hood** | present |  |  |  |  |  | all, down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **become** *in a quote* | present | every ruin in India |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **dwell** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the old summerhouse |  |  |  |  | with cobras; alive *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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