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title: The first time that Kotick went down to the sea a wave carried him o… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The first time that Kotick went down to the sea a wave carried him out beyond his depth, and his big head sank and his little hind flippers flew up exactly as his mother had told him in the song, and if the next wave had not thrown him back again he would have drowned. Who acts: first time, wave, bi
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 167

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The first time that Kotick went down to the sea a wave carried him out beyond his depth, and his big head sank and his little hind flippers flew up exactly as his mother had told him in the song, and if the next wave had not thrown him back again he would have drowned.

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**Who acts:** first time, wave, big head, little hind flippers · **What happens:** go down, carry out, sink, fly up, tell, not throw back · **To what, where:** Kotick, mother, song, next wave · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (first time, wave, big head, little hind flippers), 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:pg236:10:167
# text = The first time that Kotick went down to the sea a wave carried him out beyond his depth, and his big head sank and his little hind flippers flew up exactly as his mother had told him in the song, and if the next wave had not thrown him back again he would have drowned.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	flippers	flipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	iobj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
44	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	back	back	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
53	again	again	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	aux	_	_
57	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | the first time |  |  |  |  | to the sea; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **carry out** | past | a wave | Kotick |  |  | time | beyond Kotick's depth | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sink** | past | Kotick's big head |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fly up** | past | Kotick's little hind flippers |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | Kotick's mother | Kotick | the song |  | exactly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **throw back** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | the next wave |  |  | again |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme |
| 7 | **drown** | would · perfect · passive |  | Kotick |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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