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title: You see, Kotick had never fasted for four months as the big seals di… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You see, Kotick had never fasted for four months as the big seals did every year, and his deep-sea swimming trips kept him in perfect condition, and, best of all, he had never fought before. Who acts: You, Kotick, big seals, sea swimming trips. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 104

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You see, Kotick had never fasted for four months as the big seals did every year, and his deep-sea swimming trips kept him in perfect condition, and, best of all, he had never fought before.

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**Who acts:** You, Kotick, big seals, sea swimming trips, seal · **What happens:** see, not fast, do, keep, not fight, trip · **To what, where:** seal, perfect condition · **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 (You, Kotick, big seals, sea swimming trips), 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:pg236:12:104
# text = You see, Kotick had never fasted for four months as the big seals did every year, and his deep-sea swimming trips kept him in perfect condition, and, best of all, he had never fought before.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	fasted	fast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
21	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
42	before	before	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **fast** | past · perfect | Kotick |  |  |  | month |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | the big seals |  |  |  | year |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | past | seal's sea swimming trips | seal |  | perfect condition |  | best of all *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in condition=Location |
| 5 | **not** **fight** | past · perfect | Kotick |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **trip** |  | seal |  |  |  |  |  | nom trip «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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