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title: Limmershin gave a long list of them, for he said that Kotick spent f… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Limmershin gave a long list of them, for he said that Kotick spent five seasons exploring, with a four months’ rest each year at Novastoshnah, when the holluschickie used to make fun of him and his imaginary islands. Who acts: Limmershin, Kotick. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, T
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 15

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Limmershin gave a long list of them, for he said that Kotick spent five seasons exploring, with a four months’ rest each year at Novastoshnah, when the holluschickie used to make fun of him and his imaginary islands.

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**Who acts:** Limmershin, Kotick · **What happens:** give, say, spend, explore, rest, use · **To what, where:** long list, Novastoshnah, holluschickie, fun, cliffs · **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, 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:pg236:12:15
# text = Limmershin gave a long list of them, for he said that Kotick spent five seasons exploring, with a four months’ rest each year at Novastoshnah, when the holluschickie used to make fun of him and his imaginary islands.
1	Limmershin	Limmershin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	exploring	explore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	SYM	SYM	_	24	punct	_	_
24	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
33	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
36	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	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 | **give** | past | Limmershin | a long list of cliffs |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Limmershin |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **spend** | past | Kotick |  |  |  | season |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **explore** | gerund | Kotick *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rest** | infinitive | Kotick *not said here* |  |  | Novastoshnah | year |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at novastoshnah=Location |
| 6 | **use** | participle |  | the holluschickie *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | fun of Kotick |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |
| 8 | **list** |  |  | cliffs *= cliff* |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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