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title: It was a long, long swim, and Kotick badly wanted fresh air before h… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a long, long swim, and Kotick badly wanted fresh air before he was out of the dark tunnel they led him through. Who acts: water, Kotick, miles. 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 68

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It was a long, long swim, and Kotick badly wanted fresh air before he was out of the dark tunnel they led him through.

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**Who acts:** water, Kotick, miles · **What happens:** be, want, lead · **To what, where:** long long swim, fresh air, dark tunnel, Kotick

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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 (water, Kotick, miles), 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:pg236:12:68
# text = It was a long, long swim, and Kotick badly wanted fresh air before he was out of the dark tunnel they led him through.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	swim	swim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	through	through	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | water | a long long swim |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | past | Kotick | fresh air |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | past | Kotick |  |  | the dark tunnel |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lead** | past | miles *= mile* | Kotick |  |  |  | through *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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