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title: By daylight Kotick’s mane was standing on end and his temper was gon… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By daylight Kotick’s mane was standing on end and his temper was gone where the dead crabs go. Who acts: mane, temper, dead crabs, 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 58

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By daylight Kotick’s mane was standing on end and his temper was gone where the dead crabs go.

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**Who acts:** mane, temper, dead crabs, Kotick · **What happens:** stand, be, go, temper · **To what, where:** end

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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 (mane, temper, dead crabs, 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:pg236:12:58
# text = By daylight Kotick’s mane was standing on end and his temper was gone where the dead crabs go.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · progressive | Kotick's mane |  |  |  | on end | by daylight | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by daylight=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | Kotick's temper |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | present | the dead crabs |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **temper** |  | Kotick |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «feeling transitive»: 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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