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title: But the holluschickie and Sea Catch, his father, and all the other s… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the holluschickie and Sea Catch, his father, and all the other seals laughed at him when he told them what he had discovered, and a young seal about his own age said, “This is all very well, Kotick, but you can’t come from no one knows where and order us off like this. Who acts: other seals, sea
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 83

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But the holluschickie and Sea Catch, his father, and all the other seals laughed at him when he told them what he had discovered, and a young seal about his own age said, “This is all very well, Kotick, but you can’t come from no one knows where and order us off like this.

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**Who acts:** other seals, seal, young seal, This, lion · **What happens:** laugh, tell, discover, say, be, not come · **To what, where:** lion, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (other seals, seal, young seal, This), 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:pg236:12:83
# text = But the holluschickie and Sea Catch, his father, and all the other seals laughed at him when he told them what he had discovered, and a young seal about his own age said, “This is all very well, Kotick, but you can’t come from no one knows where and order us off like this.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	Catch	Catch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
32	about	about	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
38	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	all	all	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	very	very	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
51	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	54	det	_	_
54	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
55	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
56	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	58	advmod	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	ccomp	_	_
59	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	_
60	off	off	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	_
61	like	like	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | all other seals |  |  |  |  | at sea | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | seal |  | lion |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient what=Topic |
| 3 | **discover** | past · perfect | seal |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a young seal about sea's own age |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | This |  |  |  |  | all, well *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | can | lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **know** *in a quote* | present | lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **order off** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | us |  |  | like this | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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