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title: That nearly broke his heart, and he headed round the Horn back to hi… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That nearly broke his heart, and he headed round the Horn back to his own beaches; and on his way north he hauled out on an island full of green trees, where he found an old, old seal who was dying, and Kotick caught fish for him and told him all his sorrows. Who acts: That, seal, old old seal, Koti
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 20

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That nearly broke his heart, and he headed round the Horn back to his own beaches; and on his way north he hauled out on an island full of green trees, where he found an old, old seal who was dying, and Kotick caught fish for him and told him all his sorrows.

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**Who acts:** That, seal, old old seal, Kotick · **What happens:** break, head, haul out, find, die, catch · **To what, where:** heart, way, old old seal, fish, sorrows · **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 (That, seal, old old seal, 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:pg236:12:20
# text = That nearly broke his heart, and he headed round the Horn back to his own beaches; and on his way north he hauled out on an island full of green trees, where he found an old, old seal who was dying, and Kotick caught fish for him and told him all his sorrows.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	headed	head	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	north	north	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	hauled	haul	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
50	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	iobj	_	_
56	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	58	det:predet	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | That | seal's heart |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient |
| 2 | **head** | past | seal |  |  |  |  | round the Horn | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **haul out** | past | seal |  |  | seal's way |  | on a island; north *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past | seal | a old old seal |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Topic |
| 5 | **die** | past · progressive | a old old seal |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **catch** | past | Kotick | fish |  |  |  | for seal | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fish=Theme for he=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Kotick *not said here* |  | seal's sorrows |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sorrow=Topic |
| 8 | **sorrow** |  | seal |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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