--- title: When Kotick felt his skin tingle all over, Matkah told him he was le… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: When Kotick felt his skin tingle all over, Matkah told him he was learning the “feel of the water,” and that tingly, prickly feelings meant bad weather coming, and he must swim hard and get away. Who acts: Kotick, Matkah, that, bad weather. 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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 (Kotick, Matkah, that, bad weather), 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:pg236:11:9 # text = When Kotick felt his skin tingle all over, Matkah told him he was learning the “feel of the water,” and that tingly, prickly feelings meant bad weather coming, and he must swim hard and get away. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 Kotick Kotick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 tingle tingle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 all all ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 over over ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 Matkah Matkah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 learning learn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 ccomp _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 feel feel NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 26 tingly tingly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 prickly prickly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 31 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 parataxis _ _ 39 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 42 away away ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | Kotick | Kotick's skin tingle | | | | over *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tingle=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Matkah | | Kotick | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **learn** | past · progressive | Matkah | the feel of the water | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feel=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | past | that | bad weather | | | | tingly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Topic | | 5 | **come** | gerund | bad weather *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **swim** | must | Matkah | | | | | hard *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **get away** | infinitive | Matkah *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **tingle** | | Kotick | | | | | | nom tingle «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **feel** *in a quote* | | the water | | | | | | nom feel «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/10/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/)