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title: Late in October the seals began to leave St. Paul’s for the deep sea… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Late in October the seals began to leave St. Paul’s for the deep sea, by families and tribes, and there was no more fighting over the nurseries, and the holluschickie played anywhere they liked. Who acts: Late October, more fighting, holluschickie, seals. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard K
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 5

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Late in October the seals began to leave St. Paul’s for the deep sea, by families and tribes, and there was no more fighting over the nurseries, and the holluschickie played anywhere they liked.

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**Who acts:** Late October, more fighting, holluschickie, seals · **What happens:** begin, leave, be, play, like · **To what, where:** Paul

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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 (Late October, more fighting, holluschickie, seals), 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:pg236:11:5
# text = Late in October the seals began to leave St. Paul’s for the deep sea, by families and tribes, and there was no more fighting over the nurseries, and the holluschickie played anywhere they liked.
1	Late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
25	no	no	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	nurseries	nursery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
36	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	advmod	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Late October |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | Late October *not said here* | Paul  St. |  |  |  | for the deep sea; by families and tribes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent paul=Theme by family=Location |
| 3 | **be** | past | more fighting over the nurseries |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | past | the holluschickie |  |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **like** | past | seals *= seal* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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