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title: _Then join our leaping lines that scumfish through the pines, That r… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: _Then join our leaping lines that scumfish through the pines, That rocket by where, light and high, the wild grape swings. Who acts: _, leaping lines. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 127

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\_Then join our leaping lines that scumfish through the pines, That rocket by where, light and high, the wild grape swings.

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**Who acts:** \_, leaping lines · **What happens:** join, scumfish · **To what, where:** leaping lines, pines

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_, leaping lines), 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:pg236:7:127
# text = _Then join our leaping lines that scumfish through the pines, That rocket by where, light and high, the wild grape swings.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	leaping	leaping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	scumfish	scumfish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	swings	swing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | present | \_ | our leaping lines |  |  | then |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient |
| 2 | **scumfish** | present | our leaping lines |  |  | the pines |  |  | 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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