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title: Stareek [old man]!” while Sea Vitch rolled from side to side gruntin… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Stareek [old man]!” while Sea Vitch rolled from side to side grunting and coughing. Who acts: Stareek. 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 125

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Stareek \[old man\]!” while Sea Vitch rolled from side to side grunting and coughing.

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**Who acts:** Stareek · **What happens:** roll · **To what, where:** side

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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 (Stareek), 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:pg236:11:125
# text = Stareek [old man]!” while Sea Vitch rolled from side to side grunting and coughing.
1	Stareek	Stareek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	grunting	grunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	coughing	coughing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** *in a quote* | past | Stareek |  |  | side |  | to side grunting and coughing | vn slide-11.2-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from side=Initial\_Location to grunting=Destination |

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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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