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title: He knew that Sea Vitch never caught a fish in his life but always ro… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He knew that Sea Vitch never caught a fish in his life but always rooted for clams and seaweed; though he pretended to be a very terrible person. Who acts: Kotick, Sea. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 122

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He knew that Sea Vitch never caught a fish in his life but always rooted for clams and seaweed; though he pretended to be a very terrible person.

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**Who acts:** Kotick, Sea · **What happens:** know, not catch, root, pretend, be · **To what, where:** fish, life, terrible person · **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, Sea), 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:pg236:11:122
# text = He knew that Sea Vitch never caught a fish in his life but always rooted for clams and seaweed; though he pretended to be a very terrible person.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	rooted	root	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	clams	clam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Kotick |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **catch** | past | Sea | a fish |  | Kotick's life |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 3 | **root** | participle | Sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for clams and seaweed; always *property* | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for clam=Theme |
| 4 | **pretend** | past | Kotick |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Kotick *not said here* | a terrible person |  |  |  |  | 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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