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title: At last Mowgli rounded up the bewildered herd at the head of the rav… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last Mowgli rounded up the bewildered herd at the head of the ravine on a grassy patch that sloped steeply down to the ravine itself. Who acts: last Mowgli, grassy patch. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 36

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At last Mowgli rounded up the bewildered herd at the head of the ravine on a grassy patch that sloped steeply down to the ravine itself.

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**Who acts:** last Mowgli, grassy patch · **What happens:** round up, bewilder, slope · **To what, where:** bewildered herd, head

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last Mowgli, grassy patch), 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:pg236:9:36
# text = At last Mowgli rounded up the bewildered herd at the head of the ravine on a grassy patch that sloped steeply down to the ravine itself.
1	At	at	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rounded	round	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sloped	slope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	steeply	steeply	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	25	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **round up** | past | last Mowgli | the bewildered herd |  | the head of the ravine |  | on a grassy patch | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herd=Patient |
| 2 | **bewilder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **slope** | past | a grassy patch |  |  |  |  | to the ravine  ravine; down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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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