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title: They set out together across the Pacific, and Matkah showed Kotick h… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They set out together across the Pacific, and Matkah showed Kotick how to sleep on his back with his flippers tucked down by his side and his little nose just out of the water. Who acts: seals, Matkah. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11, with its dependency 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 7

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They set out together across the Pacific, and Matkah showed Kotick how to sleep on his back with his flippers tucked down by his side and his little nose just out of the water.

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**Who acts:** seals, Matkah · **What happens:** set out, show, sleep, tuck down · **To what, where:** Pacific, Kotick, back, flippers · **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 (seals, Matkah), 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:pg236:11:7
# text = They set out together across the Pacific, and Matkah showed Kotick how to sleep on his back with his flippers tucked down by his side and his little nose just out of the water.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Matkah	Matkah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	flippers	flipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | seals *= seal* |  |  | the Pacific |  | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across pacific=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **show** | past | Matkah | Kotick |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent kotick=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Matkah's back |  | with Matkah's flippers and Matkah's little nose; out the water | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tuck down** | participle |  | Matkah's flippers and Matkah's little nose *not said here* |  |  |  | by Matkah's side | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by side=Trajectory |

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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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