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title: The moon was sinking behind the hills and the lines of trembling mon… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon was sinking behind the hills and the lines of trembling monkeys huddled together on the walls and battlements looked like ragged shaky fringes of things. Who acts: moon, lines. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 48

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The moon was sinking behind the hills and the lines of trembling monkeys huddled together on the walls and battlements looked like ragged shaky fringes of things.

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**Who acts:** moon, lines · **What happens:** sink, tremble, huddle, look · **To what, where:** hills, trembling monkeys, walls

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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 (moon, 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:pg236:7:48
# text = The moon was sinking behind the hills and the lines of trembling monkeys huddled together on the walls and battlements looked like ragged shaky fringes of things.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	huddled	huddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	battlements	battlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	shaky	shaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fringes	fringe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past · progressive | the moon |  |  | the hills |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **huddle** | participle |  | trembling monkeys *not said here* |  | the walls and battlements |  | together *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Location |
| 4 | **look** | past | the lines of trembling monkeys |  |  |  |  | like ragged shaky fringes of things | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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