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title: The sea is full of fire on summer nights all the way down from Novas… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sea is full of fire on summer nights all the way down from Novastoshnah to Lukannon, and each seal leaves a wake like burning oil behind him and a flaming flash when he jumps, and the waves break in great phosphorescent streaks and swirls. Who acts: sea, seal, wake, waves. A sentence of «The Jun
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 32

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The sea is full of fire on summer nights all the way down from Novastoshnah to Lukannon, and each seal leaves a wake like burning oil behind him and a flaming flash when he jumps, and the waves break in great phosphorescent streaks and swirls.

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**Who acts:** sea, seal, wake, waves · **What happens:** be, leave, burn, jump, break · **To what, where:** wake, oil, great phosphorescent streaks

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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 (sea, seal, wake, waves), 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:pg236:11:32
# text = The sea is full of fire on summer nights all the way down from Novastoshnah to Lukannon, and each seal leaves a wake like burning oil behind him and a flaming flash when he jumps, and the waves break in great phosphorescent streaks and swirls.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Lukannon	Lukannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wake	wake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	jumps	jump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	phosphorescent	phosphorescent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	streaks	streak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	swirls	swirl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the sea |  |  |  | night | of fire; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | present | each seal | a wake |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wake=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund | a wake *not said here* | oil |  |  |  | behind sea | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent oil=Theme |
| 4 | **jump** | present | sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **break** | present | the waves |  |  | great phosphorescent streaks and swirls |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in streak=Location |

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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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