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title: Then he began making loops and figures of eight with his body, and s… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he began making loops and figures of eight with his body, and soft, oozy triangles that melted into squares and five-sided figures, and coiled mounds, never resting, never hurrying, and never stopping his low humming song. Who acts: Kaa, soft oozy triangles, coiled mounds. A sentence of «The Ju
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 57

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Then he began making loops and figures of eight with his body, and soft, oozy triangles that melted into squares and five-sided figures, and coiled mounds, never resting, never hurrying, and never stopping his low humming song.

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**Who acts:** Kaa, soft oozy triangles, coiled mounds · **What happens:** begin, make, melt, not rest, not hurry, not stop · **To what, where:** loops, squares, low humming song

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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, soft oozy triangles, coiled mounds), 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:pg236:7:57
# text = Then he began making loops and figures of eight with his body, and soft, oozy triangles that melted into squares and five-sided figures, and coiled mounds, never resting, never hurrying, and never stopping his low humming song.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	loops	loop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	oozy	oozy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	triangles	triangle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	melted	melt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	squares	square	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	sided	sided	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	coiled	coiled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	mounds	mound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
43	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	humming	humming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Kaa |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | Kaa *not said here* | loops and figures of eight |  |  |  | with Kaa's body | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset loop=Product |
| 3 | **melt** | past | soft oozy triangles |  |  | squares and sided figures |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into square=Product |
| 4 | **not** **rest** | gerund | coiled mounds |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **hurry** | gerund | coiled mounds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **stop** | gerund | Kaa *not said here* | Kaa's low humming song |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality song=Eventuality |
| 7 | **sing** |  | Kaa |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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