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title: Then he headed straight for Walrus Islet, a little low sheet of rock… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he headed straight for Walrus Islet, a little low sheet of rocky island almost due northeast from Novastoshnah, all ledges and rock and gulls’ nests, where the walrus herded by themselves. Who acts: Kotick. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11, with its d
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 104

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Then he headed straight for Walrus Islet, a little low sheet of rocky island almost due northeast from Novastoshnah, all ledges and rock and gulls’ nests, where the walrus herded by themselves.

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**Who acts:** Kotick · **What happens:** head, herd · **To what, where:** ledges, walrus

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kotick), 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:pg236:11:104
# text = Then he headed straight for Walrus Islet, a little low sheet of rocky island almost due northeast from Novastoshnah, all ledges and rock and gulls’ nests, where the walrus herded by themselves.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	headed	head	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Walrus	Walrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	Islet	Islet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	ledges	ledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	gulls	gull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	nmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	walrus	walrus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
34	herded	herd	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **head** | past | Kotick | all ledges and rock and gulls's nests |  |  | then | for Walrus; straight *property* | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **herd** | participle |  | the walrus *not said here* |  |  |  | by nests *= nest* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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