--- title: “What you must do,” said old Sea Catch, after he had heard his son’s… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: “What you must do,” said old Sea Catch, after he had heard his son’s adventures, “is to grow up and be a big seal like your father, and have a nursery on the beach, and then they will leave you alone. Who acts: you, old Sea Catch, he, adventures. 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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 (you, old Sea Catch, he, adventures), 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:pg236:12:1 # text = “What you must do,” said old Sea Catch, after he had heard his son’s adventures, “is to grow up and be a big seal like your father, and have a nursery on the beach, and then they will leave you alone. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Catch catch NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 after after SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’s 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 nursery nursery NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 48 advmod _ _ 46 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 49 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 alone alone ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *in a quote* | must | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | old Sea Catch | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | he | his son's adventures | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer adventure=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | he *not said here* | | | | | grow *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | he *not said here* | a big seal | | | | like your father | tree rules | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | | a nursery | | the beach | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nursery=Patient | | 7 | **leave** *in a quote* | future | adventures *= adventure* | you | | | then | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 8 | **adventure** | | his son | | | | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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: [The Jungle Book, part 11, 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/137/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/2/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/)