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title: “Next year,” said Matkah to Kotick, “you will be a holluschickie; bu… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Next year,” said Matkah to Kotick, “you will be a holluschickie; but this year you must learn how to catch fish.” Who acts: Matkah, you. 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 6

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“Next year,” said Matkah to Kotick, “you will be a holluschickie; but this year you must learn how to catch fish.”

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**Who acts:** Matkah, you · **What happens:** say, be, learn, catch · **To what, where:** holluschickie, fish · **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 (Matkah, you), 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:pg236:11:6
# text = “Next year,” said Matkah to Kotick, “you will be a holluschickie; but this year you must learn how to catch fish.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Matkah	Matkah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Matkah to Kotick |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | you | a holluschickie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** *in a quote* | must | you |  |  |  | year |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **catch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | fish |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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