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title: Limmershin told me that never in his life--and Limmershin sees ten t… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Limmershin told me that never in his life--and Limmershin sees ten thousand big seals fighting every year--never in all his little life did he see anything like Kotick’s charge into the nurseries. Who acts: Limmershin, thousand big seals, Kotick. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, T
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 102

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Limmershin told me that never in his life--and Limmershin sees ten thousand big seals fighting every year--never in all his little life did he see anything like Kotick’s charge into the nurseries.

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**Who acts:** Limmershin, thousand big seals, Kotick · **What happens:** tell, see, fight, not see, charge · **To what, where:** me, thousand big seals, anything, little life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Limmershin, thousand big seals, Kotick), 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:pg236:12:102
# text = Limmershin told me that never in his life--and Limmershin sees ten thousand big seals fighting every year--never in all his little life did he see anything like Kotick’s charge into the nurseries.
1	Limmershin	Limmershin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Limmershin	Limmershin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
13	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
27	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
30	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	obj	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	nurseries	nursery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Limmershin |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | present | Limmershin | thousand big seals |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seal=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fight** | gerund | thousand big seals *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | Limmershin | anything |  | Limmershin's little life |  | like Kotick's charge; into the nurseries | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 5 | **charge** |  | Kotick |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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