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title: An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and lit… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear. Who acts: Indian grazing ground, herds. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 68

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An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.

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**Who acts:** Indian grazing ground, herds · **What happens:** be, scatter, disappear · **To what, where:** rocks

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian grazing ground, herds), 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:pg236:8:68
# text = An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	grazing	grazing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	scrub	scrub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tussocks	tussock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ravines	ravine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	scatter	scatter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	disappear	disappear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a Indian grazing ground | rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **scatter** | present | the herds |  |  | rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme among which=Destination |
| 3 | **disappear** | present | the herds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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