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title: Sea Catch sunk his head proudly between his fat shoulders and preten… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sea Catch sunk his head proudly between his fat shoulders and pretended to go to sleep for a few minutes, but all the time he was keeping a sharp lookout for a fight. Who acts: Sea Catch, Catch. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10, with its dependency tree an
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 144

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Sea Catch sunk his head proudly between his fat shoulders and pretended to go to sleep for a few minutes, but all the time he was keeping a sharp lookout for a fight.

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**Who acts:** Sea Catch, Catch · **What happens:** sink, pretend, go, sleep, keep · **To what, where:** head, sharp lookout

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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 Catch, Catch), 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:pg236:10:144
# text = Sea Catch sunk his head proudly between his fat shoulders and pretended to go to sleep for a few minutes, but all the time he was keeping a sharp lookout for a fight.
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sunk	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	lookout	lookout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | Sea Catch | Catch's head |  |  |  | between Catch's fat shoulders; proudly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 2 | **pretend** | past | Sea Catch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | Sea Catch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Sea Catch *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **keep** | past · progressive | Catch | a sharp lookout |  |  | time | for a fight | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lookout=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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