--- title: The herd never went more than forty or fifty miles a day, and stoppe… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: The herd never went more than forty or fifty miles a day, and stopped to feed at night, and kept close to the shore all the time; while Kotick swam round them, and over them, and under them, but he could not hurry them up one-half mile. Who acts: herd, Kotick. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herd, Kotick), 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:pg236:12:63 # text = The herd never went more than forty or fifty miles a day, and stopped to feed at night, and kept close to the shore all the time; while Kotick swam round them, and over them, and under them, but he could not hurry them up one-half mile. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 7 advmod _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 5 fixed _ _ 7 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ 10 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 29 det:predet _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 while while SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 Kotick Kotick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 round round ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 over over ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 under under ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 45 but but CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 47 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 48 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 49 hurry hurry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 50 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 up up ADP RP _ 49 compound:prt _ _ 52 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 54 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 55 compound _ _ 55 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go** | past | the herd | forty miles a day | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | past | the herd *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **feed** | to-infinitive | the herd *not said here* | | | | night | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | past | the herd *not said here* | | | | time | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **swim** | past | Kotick | | | | | round miles *= mile* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory | | 6 | **not** **hurry up** | could | Kotick | miles *= mile* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Agent | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/64/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/)