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title: He landed close to old Sea Vitch--the big, ugly, bloated, pimpled, f… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He landed close to old Sea Vitch--the big, ugly, bloated, pimpled, fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep--as he was then, with his hind flippers half in and half out of the surf. Who acts: walrus, long tusked walrus. A sentence of «The Jungl
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 105

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He landed close to old Sea Vitch--the big, ugly, bloated, pimpled, fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep--as he was then, with his hind flippers half in and half out of the surf.

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**Who acts:** walrus, long tusked walrus · **What happens:** land, bloat, neck, tusk, have, be · **To what, where:** manners

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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 (walrus, long tusked walrus), 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:pg236:11:105
# text = He landed close to old Sea Vitch--the big, ugly, bloated, pimpled, fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep--as he was then, with his hind flippers half in and half out of the surf.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bloated	bloat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	pimpled	pimpled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	necked	neck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tusked	tusk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	walrus	walrus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	32	obj	_	_
35	except	except	ADP	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	39	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	flippers	flipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
50	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	51	advmod	_	_
51	in	in	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
53	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	57	advmod	_	_
54	out	out	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | walrus |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bloat** | participle | walrus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **neck** | participle | walrus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tusk** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | long tusked walrus of the North Pacific | no manners |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | present | walrus |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | walrus |  |  |  |  | with walrus's hind flippers; then *property* | tree rules |

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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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