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title: “You’re the only people I’ve ever met uglier than Sea Vitch--and wit… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You’re the only people I’ve ever met uglier than Sea Vitch--and with worse manners.” Who acts: You, Kotick. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 52

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“You’re the only people I’ve ever met uglier than Sea Vitch--and with worse manners.”

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**Who acts:** You, Kotick · **What happens:** be, meet · **To what, where:** only people

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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 (You, 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:pg236:12:52
# text = “You’re the only people I’ve ever met uglier than Sea Vitch--and with worse manners.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’re	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	uglier	ugly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** *in a quote* | present | You | the only people |  |  |  | with worse manners | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot people=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Kotick | the only people *not said here* |  |  | ever | ugly *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-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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