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title: I am the last of the Lost Rookery of Masafuera, and in the days when… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I am the last of the Lost Rookery of Masafuera, and in the days when men killed us by the hundred thousand there was a story on the beaches that some day a white seal would come out of the North and lead the seal people to a quiet place. Who acts: I, men, story, beaches. A sentence of «The Jungle Bo
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 23

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I am the last of the Lost Rookery of Masafuera, and in the days when men killed us by the hundred thousand there was a story on the beaches that some day a white seal would come out of the North and lead the seal people to a quiet place.

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**Who acts:** I, men, story, beaches · **What happens:** be, lose, kill, come out, lead · **To what, where:** last, us, seal people, quiet place

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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 (I, men, story, beaches), 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:pg236:12:23
# text = I am the last of the Lost Rookery of Masafuera, and in the days when men killed us by the hundred thousand there was a story on the beaches that some day a white seal would come out of the North and lead the seal people to a quiet place.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	Rookery	rookery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Masafuera	Masafuera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	compound	_	_
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	_
39	out	out	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | the last |  |  |  | of the Lost Rookery of Masafuera | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kill** | past | men | us |  |  | day |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | a story on the beaches |  |  | there |  | by the hundred thousand | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by thousand=Location |
| 5 | **come out** | would | the beaches |  |  |  | day | of the North; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **lead** | present | the beaches *not said here* | the seal people |  | a quiet place |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme to place=Destination |

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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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