--- title: Old Sea Catch, his father, saw him tearing past, hauling the grizzle… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Old Sea Catch, his father, saw him tearing past, hauling the grizzled old seals about as though they had been halibut, and upsetting the young bachelors in all directions; and Sea Catch gave a roar and shouted: “He may be a fool, but he is the best fighter on the beaches! Who acts: Old Sea Catch, se --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/106/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/) / 106 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 106 Old Sea Catch, his father, saw him tearing past, hauling the grizzled old seals about as though they had been halibut, and upsetting the young bachelors in all directions; and Sea Catch gave a roar and shouted: “He may be a fool, but he is the best fighter on the beaches! **Who acts:** Old Sea Catch, seal, eyes, Sea Catch · **What happens:** see, tear, haul, grizzle, be, upset · **To what, where:** seal, grizzled old seals, halibut, young bachelors, directions, roar · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Old Sea Catch, seal, eyes, Sea Catch), 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:pg236:12:106 # text = Old Sea Catch, his father, saw him tearing past, hauling the grizzled old seals about as though they had been halibut, and upsetting the young bachelors in all directions; and Sea Catch gave a roar and shouted: “He may be a fool, but he is the best fighter on the beaches! 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Catch catch NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 tearing tear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 11 past past ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 hauling haul VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 grizzled grizzle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 16 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 though though SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 cop _ _ 24 halibut halibut NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 upsetting upset VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 bachelors bachelor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 directions direction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Catch Catch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 roar roar NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 : : PUNCT : _ 49 punct _ _ 44 “ " PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 46 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 47 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 49 cop _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 51 but but CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 52 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 53 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 cop _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 55 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 56 amod _ _ 56 fighter fighter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 57 on on ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Old Sea Catch and Catch's father | seal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tear** | gerund | seal *not said here* | | | | | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **haul** | gerund | seal *not said here* | the grizzled old seals | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme | | 4 | **grizzle** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past · perfect | eyes *= eye* | halibut | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **upset** | gerund | seal *not said here* | the young bachelors | | all directions | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bachelor=Experiencer | | 7 | **give** | past | Sea Catch | a roar | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme | | 8 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | Sea Catch *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** *in a quote* | may | seal | a fool | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | seal | the best fighter | | the beaches | | | tree rules | 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 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/107/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/)