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title: Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground, sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose-first. Who acts: Kaa, 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 17

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Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground, sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose-first.

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**Who acts:** Kaa, marble tracery, power smashing · **What happens:** look, find, discolor, show, make, get · **To what, where:** discolored crack, marble tracery, weak spot, two light taps, distance, six feet

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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 (Kaa, marble tracery, power smashing), 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:pg236:7:17
# text = Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground, sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose-first.
1	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	discolored	discolor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	tracery	tracery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	conj	_	_
23	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	taps	tap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
35	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
48	home	home	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	51	det:predet	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
52	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	smashing	smashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Kaa |  |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **find** | past | Kaa | a discolored crack |  | the marble tracery |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Topic |
| 3 | **discolor** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **show** | gerund | the marble tracery *not said here* | a weak spot |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spot=Recipient |
| 5 | **make** | past | Kaa *not said here* | two light taps |  |  |  | with Kaa's head | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tap=Product |
| 6 | **get** | to-infinitive | Kaa *not said here* | the distance |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer distance=Stimulus |
| 7 | **lift up** | gerund | Kaa *not said here* | six feet of Kaa's body |  |  | then | clear *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 8 | **send** | past |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **blow** | present | power smashing |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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