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title: When they began feeding again Kotick saw that their upper lip was sp… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they began feeding again Kotick saw that their upper lip was split into two pieces that they could twitch apart about a foot and bring together again with a whole bushel of seaweed between the splits. Who acts: flippers, Kotick, seaweed. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The J
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 43

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When they began feeding again Kotick saw that their upper lip was split into two pieces that they could twitch apart about a foot and bring together again with a whole bushel of seaweed between the splits.

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**Who acts:** flippers, Kotick, seaweed · **What happens:** begin, feed, see, split, twitch, bring together · **To what, where:** upper lip, two pieces · **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 (flippers, Kotick, seaweed), 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:pg236:12:43
# text = When they began feeding again Kotick saw that their upper lip was split into two pieces that they could twitch apart about a foot and bring together again with a whole bushel of seaweed between the splits.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
4	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	twitch	twitch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
21	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	between	between	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	splits	split	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | flippers *= flipper* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **feed** | gerund | flippers *= flipper* *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | Kotick |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **split** | past · passive |  | flippers's upper lip |  |  |  | into two pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into piece=Result |
| 5 | **twitch** | could | flippers *= flipper* |  |  |  |  | about a foot; apart *property* | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bring together** | infinitive | flippers *= flipper* *not said here* |  |  |  | again | with a whole bushel of seaweed; together *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **split** | present | seaweed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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