--- title: Sea Catch had just finished his forty-fifth fight one spring when Ma… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Sea Catch had just finished his forty-fifth fight one spring when Matkah, his soft, sleek, gentle-eyed wife, came up out of the sea, and he caught her by the scruff of the neck and dumped her down on his reservation, saying gruffly: “Late as usual. Who acts: Matkah, Catch. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matkah, Catch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:10:122 # text = Sea Catch had just finished his forty-fifth fight one spring when Matkah, his soft, sleek, gentle-eyed wife, came up out of the sea, and he caught her by the scruff of the neck and dumped her down on his reservation, saying gruffly: “Late as usual. 1 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Catch Catch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 7 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 fifth fifth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 14 Matkah Matkah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 17 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 sleek sleek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 21 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 eyed eyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 26 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 27 up up ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 out out ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 scruff scruff NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 dumped dump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 down down ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 47 on on ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 reservation reservation NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 advcl _ _ 52 gruffly gruffly ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 : : PUNCT : _ 55 punct _ _ 54 “ " PUNCT `` _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 Late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 ccomp _ _ 56 as as ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past · perfect · passive | | Sea Catch | | | spring | | tree rules | | 2 | **come up** | past | Matkah | | | the sea | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out sea=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **catch** | past | Matkah | Novastoshnah | | | | by the scruff of the neck | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **dump down** | past | Matkah *not said here* | Novastoshnah | | Catch's reservation | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme on reservation=Trajectory | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Matkah *not said here* | | | | | gruffly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fight** | | Catch | | | | | | nom fight «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/10/121/) - next →: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/10/123/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/10/)