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title: Kotick did not care to hear any more about skinning just then; he ha… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Kotick did not care to hear any more about skinning just then; he had seen enough of it. Who acts: Kotick. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 115

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Kotick did not care to hear any more about skinning just then; he had seen enough of it.

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**Who acts:** Kotick · **What happens:** not care, hear, skin, see · **To what, where:** more

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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:pg236:11:115
# text = Kotick did not care to hear any more about skinning just then; he had seen enough of it.
1	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	any	any	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
9	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	skinning	skin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
17	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **not** **care** | past · do-support | Kotick |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | Kotick *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 3 | **skin** | gerund | Kotick *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | Kotick |  |  |  |  | of club; enough *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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