--- title: Ten minutes later little Kotick did not recognize his friends any mo… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Ten minutes later little Kotick did not recognize his friends any more, for their skins were ripped off from the nose to the hind flippers, whipped off and thrown down on the ground in a pile. Who acts: Ten minutes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ten minutes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:11:80 # text = Ten minutes later little Kotick did not recognize his friends any more, for their skins were ripped off from the nose to the hind flippers, whipped off and thrown down on the ground in a pile. 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Kotick Kotick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 recognize recognize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 any any ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 ripped rip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 19 off off ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 hind hind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 whipped whip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 32 down down ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **recognize** | past · do-support | Ten minutes little Kotick | Kotick's friends | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus | | 2 | **rip off** | past · passive | | Kerick's skins | | the nose | | to the hind flippers *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to flipper=Result | | 3 | **whip off** | participle | | the hind flippers *not said here* | | | | | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **throw down** | participle | | | | the ground | | in a pile | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/81/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/)