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title: Even when he swam thousands of miles out of the Pacific and got to a… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Even when he swam thousands of miles out of the Pacific and got to a place called Cape Corrientes (that was when he was coming back from Gough’s Island), he found a few hundred mangy seals on a rock and they told him that men came there too. Who acts: seal, that, thousands, men. A sentence of «The J
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 19

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Even when he swam thousands of miles out of the Pacific and got to a place called Cape Corrientes (that was when he was coming back from Gough’s Island), he found a few hundred mangy seals on a rock and they told him that men came there too.

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**Who acts:** seal, that, thousands, men · **What happens:** swim, get, call, come back, find, tell · **To what, where:** thousands, Pacific, place, Island, few hundred mangy seals, rock · **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 (seal, that, thousands, men), 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:pg236:12:19
# text = Even when he swam thousands of miles out of the Pacific and got to a place called Cape Corrientes (that was when he was coming back from Gough’s Island), he found a few hundred mangy seals on a rock and they told him that men came there too.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
19	Corrientes	Corrientes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	Gough	Gough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
38	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
39	mangy	mangy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	iobj	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
50	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
51	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	advmod	_	_
52	too	too	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past | seal | thousands of miles |  | the Pacific |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Trajectory |
| 2 | **get** | past | seal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a place *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | a place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come back** | past · progressive | that |  |  | Gough's Island |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from island=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **find** | past | seal | a few hundred mangy seals |  | a rock |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Topic |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | thousands *= thousand* |  | seal |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 7 | **come** | past | men |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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