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title: The sea cows had separated and were browsing lazily along the edges… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sea cows had separated and were browsing lazily along the edges of the finest beaches that Kotick had ever seen. Who acts: finest beaches. 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 71

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The sea cows had separated and were browsing lazily along the edges of the finest beaches that Kotick had ever seen.

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**Who acts:** finest beaches · **What happens:** separate, browse, see · **To what, where:** sea cows

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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 (finest beaches), 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:pg236:12:71
# text = The sea cows had separated and were browsing lazily along the edges of the finest beaches that Kotick had ever seen.
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	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	browsing	browse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
9	lazily	lazily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | past · perfect · passive |  | the sea cows |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **browse** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | along the edges of the finest beaches; lazily *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | the finest beaches |  |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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