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title: The lines of the monkeys swayed forward helplessly, and Baloo and Ba… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The lines of the monkeys swayed forward helplessly, and Baloo and Bagheera took one stiff step forward with them. Who acts: lines, Baloo. 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 65

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The lines of the monkeys swayed forward helplessly, and Baloo and Bagheera took one stiff step forward with them.

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**Who acts:** lines, Baloo · **What happens:** sway, take · **To what, where:** one stiff step

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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 (lines, Baloo), 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:pg236:7:65
# text = The lines of the monkeys swayed forward helplessly, and Baloo and Bagheera took one stiff step forward with them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	swayed	sway	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	helplessly	helplessly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sway** | past | the lines of the monkeys |  |  |  |  | forward, helplessly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | Baloo and Bagheera | one stiff step |  |  |  | with lines *= line*; forward *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=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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