--- title: The sea cows went on schlooping and grazing and chumping in the weed… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: The sea cows went on schlooping and grazing and chumping in the weed, and Kotick asked them questions in every language that he had picked up in his travels; and the Sea People talk nearly as many languages as human beings. Who acts: sea cows, Kotick, language, Sea People. A sentence of «The Jungle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/54/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/) / 54 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 54 The sea cows went on schlooping and grazing and chumping in the weed, and Kotick asked them questions in every language that he had picked up in his travels; and the Sea People talk nearly as many languages as human beings. **Who acts:** sea cows, Kotick, language, Sea People · **What happens:** go, chump, ask, pick up, travel, talk · **To what, where:** schlooping, weed, questions, weeds, language, Kotick 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 (sea cows, Kotick, language, Sea People), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:12:54 # text = The sea cows went on schlooping and grazing and chumping in the weed, and Kotick asked them questions in every language that he had picked up in his travels; and the Sea People talk nearly as many languages as human beings. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 schlooping schlooping NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 grazing grazing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 chumping chump VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 weed weed NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 Kotick Kotick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 in in SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 People People PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 38 as as ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 41 as as ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 beings being NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the sea cows | | | schlooping and grazing | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on schlooping=Location | | 2 | **chump** | gerund | the sea cows *not said here* | | | the weed | | | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Kotick | questions | weeds *= weed* | every language | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pick up** | past · perfect · passive | every language *not said here* | Kotick | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 5 | **travel** | present | every language *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **talk** | present | the Sea People | many languages | | | | as human beings | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent language=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/55/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/)