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title: He turned twice or thrice in a big circle, weaving his head from rig… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He turned twice or thrice in a big circle, weaving his head from right to left. Who acts: Kaa. 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 56

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He turned twice or thrice in a big circle, weaving his head from right to left.

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**Who acts:** Kaa · **What happens:** turn, weave, leave · **To what, where:** big circle, head, right

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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), 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:pg236:7:56
# text = He turned twice or thrice in a big circle, weaving his head from right to left.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	thrice	thrice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Kaa |  |  | a big circle |  | twice *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **weave** | gerund | Kaa *not said here* | Kaa's head |  | right |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent head=Product from right=Material |
| 3 | **leave** | participle | Kaa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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