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title: So he called out: “Isn’t there any place for seals to go where men d… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he called out: “Isn’t there any place for seals to go where men don’t ever come?” Who acts: Kotick, men. 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 116

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So he called out: “Isn’t there any place for seals to go where men don’t ever come?”

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**Who acts:** Kotick, men · **What happens:** call out, go, not come · **To what, where:** place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, men), 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:pg236:11:116
# text = So he called out: “Isn’t there any place for seals to go where men don’t ever come?”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: ask* | past | Kotick | any place for seals |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Kotick *not said here* | any place for seals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | present · do-support | men |  |  |  | ever |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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