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title: Yet Sea Catch never chased a beaten seal, for that was against the R… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet Sea Catch never chased a beaten seal, for that was against the Rules of the Beach. Who acts: Sea, that. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 115

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Yet Sea Catch never chased a beaten seal, for that was against the Rules of the Beach.

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**Who acts:** Sea, that · **What happens:** not chase, beat, be · **To what, where:** beaten seal

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea, that), 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:pg236:10:115
# text = Yet Sea Catch never chased a beaten seal, for that was against the Rules of the Beach.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Catch	Catch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Beach	Beach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **chase** | past | Sea | a beaten seal |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme |
| 2 | **beat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | for the Rules; of the Beach | tree rules |

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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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