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title: So he explored and explored by himself from the North to the South P… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he explored and explored by himself from the North to the South Pacific, swimming as much as three hundred miles in a day and a night. Who acts: 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 8

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So he explored and explored by himself from the North to the South Pacific, swimming as much as three hundred miles in a day and a night.

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**Who acts:** Kotick · **What happens:** explore, swim · **To what, where:** North, much

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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 (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:pg236:12:8
# text = So he explored and explored by himself from the North to the South Pacific, swimming as much as three hundred miles in a day and a night.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	explored	explore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	explored	explore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explore** | past | Kotick |  |  | the North |  | to the South Pacific | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **explore** | participle | Kotick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Kotick | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swim** | gerund | Kotick *not said here* | much |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Trajectory |

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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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