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title: He was six days going home, though he was not swimming slowly; and w… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was six days going home, though he was not swimming slowly; and when he hauled out just above Sea Lion’s Neck the first person he met was the seal who had been waiting for him, and she saw by the look in his eyes that he had found his island at last. Who acts: sea, six days, first person, seal. A
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 82

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He was six days going home, though he was not swimming slowly; and when he hauled out just above Sea Lion’s Neck the first person he met was the seal who had been waiting for him, and she saw by the look in his eyes that he had found his island at last.

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**Who acts:** sea, six days, first person, seal, person · **What happens:** be, go, not swim, haul out, meet, wait · **To what, where:** six days, first person, seal, Neck, island, last

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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 (sea, six days, first person, seal), 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:pg236:12:82
# text = He was six days going home, though he was not swimming slowly; and when he hauled out just above Sea Lion’s Neck the first person he met was the seal who had been waiting for him, and she saw by the look in his eyes that he had found his island at last.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hauled	haul	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
21	above	above	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	Neck	Neck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
28	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	aux	_	_
37	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | sea | six days |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | six days *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **swim** | past · progressive | sea |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **haul out** | past | sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **meet** | past | sea | the first person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the first person | the seal |  | Sea Lion's Neck |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **wait** | past · perfect · progressive | the seal |  |  |  |  | for sea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **see** | past | person |  |  |  |  | by the look in sea's eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **find** | past · perfect | sea | sea's island |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent island=Theme at last=Asset |

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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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