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description: Mowgli stood as quietly as he could, peering through the open work and listening to the furious din of the fight round the Black Panther--the yells and chatterings and scufflings, and Bagheera’s deep, hoarse cough as he backed and bucked and twisted and plunged under the heaps of his enemies. Who ac
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 67

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Mowgli stood as quietly as he could, peering through the open work and listening to the furious din of the fight round the Black Panther--the yells and chatterings and scufflings, and Bagheera’s deep, hoarse cough as he backed and bucked and twisted and plunged under the heaps of his enemies.

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**Who acts:** Mowgli, fight · **What happens:** stand, peer, listen, back, buck, twist · **To what, where:** yells, heaps

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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 (Mowgli, fight), 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:pg236:6:67
# text = Mowgli stood as quietly as he could, peering through the open work and listening to the furious din of the fight round the Black Panther--the yells and chatterings and scufflings, and Bagheera’s deep, hoarse cough as he backed and bucked and twisted and plunged under the heaps of his enemies.
1	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	peering	peer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	round	round	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Panther	Panther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	yells	yell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	chatterings	chattering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	scufflings	scuffling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
38	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
40	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	backed	back	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	bucked	buck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	twisted	twist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	conj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	conj	_	_
51	under	under	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **peer** | could | Mowgli | the yells and chatterings and scufflings |  |  |  | through the open work | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through work=Theme |
| 3 | **listen** | gerund | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the furious din of the fight round the Black Panther | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to din=Theme |
| 4 | **back** | past | Mowgli |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **buck** | participle | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **twist** | participle | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **plunge** | participle | Mowgli *not said here* |  |  | the heaps of Mowgli's enemies |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 8 | **din** |  | the fight round the Black Panther |  |  |  |  |  | nom din «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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