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title: Kotick, Matkah’s baby, was born in the middle of that confusion, and… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Kotick, Matkah’s baby, was born in the middle of that confusion, and he was all head and shoulders, with pale, watery blue eyes, as tiny seals must be, but there was something about his coat that made his mother look at him very closely. Who acts: Kotick, tiny seals, something, coat. A sentence of «
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 148

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Kotick, Matkah’s baby, was born in the middle of that confusion, and he was all head and shoulders, with pale, watery blue eyes, as tiny seals must be, but there was something about his coat that made his mother look at him very closely.

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**Who acts:** Kotick, tiny seals, something, coat, mother · **What happens:** bear, be, make, look · **To what, where:** Kotick, middle, head

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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 (Kotick, tiny seals, something, coat), 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:pg236:10:148
# text = Kotick, Matkah’s baby, was born in the middle of that confusion, and he was all head and shoulders, with pale, watery blue eyes, as tiny seals must be, but there was something about his coat that made his mother look at him very closely.
1	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Matkah	Matkah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	watery	watery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	39	expl	_	_
39	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
40	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	39	nsubj	_	_
41	about	about	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
45	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	_
51	very	very	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | Kotick |  | the middle of that confusion |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Kotick | all head and shoulders |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | must | tiny seals |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | something |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | Seal's coat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | infinitive | Seal's mother |  |  |  |  | at Seal; closely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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