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title: Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into the ditch. Who acts: Kaa, wrench. 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 89

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Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into the ditch.

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**Who acts:** Kaa, wrench · **What happens:** have, work, land, dislodge · **To what, where:** way, west wall, coping stone, ditch

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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 (Kaa, wrench), 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:pg236:6:89
# text = Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into the ditch.
1	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	landing	land	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wrench	wrench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dislodged	dislodge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	coping	coping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Kaa |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | past | Kaa *not said here* | Kaa's way |  | the west wall |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material |
| 3 | **land** | gerund | Kaa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a wrench | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dislodge** | past | a wrench | a coping stone |  | the ditch |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |

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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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