--- title: As they went farther north they held a bowing council every few hour… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: As they went farther north they held a bowing council every few hours, and Kotick nearly bit off his mustache with impatience till he saw that they were following up a warm current of water, and then he respected them more. Who acts: miles, 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 (miles, 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:pg236:12:64 # text = As they went farther north they held a bowing council every few hours, and Kotick nearly bit off his mustache with impatience till he saw that they were following up a warm current of water, and then he respected them more. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 5 north north ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 bowing bow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 10 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 12 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 Kotick Kotick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 19 off off ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 mustache mustache NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 impatience impatience NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 till till SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 respected respect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | miles *= mile* | | | | | north *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | past | miles *= mile* | a bowing council | | | hour | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme | | 3 | **bow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bite off** | past | Kotick | Kotick's mustache | | | | with impatience; nearly *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mustache=Patient with impatience=Instrument | | 5 | **see** | past | Kotick | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **follow up** | past · progressive | miles *= mile* | a warm current of water | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **respect** | past | Kotick | miles *= mile* | | | then | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/65/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/)