--- title: Kotick roared in answer, and old Sea Catch waddled in with his musta… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Kotick roared in answer, and old Sea Catch waddled in with his mustache on end, blowing like a locomotive, while Matkah and the seal that was going to marry Kotick cowered down and admired their men-folk. Who acts: Kotick, old Sea Catch, Matkah. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kotick, old Sea Catch, Matkah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg236:13:1 # text = Kotick roared in answer, and old Sea Catch waddled in with his mustache on end, blowing like a locomotive, while Matkah and the seal that was going to marry Kotick cowered down and admired their men-folk. 1 Kotick Kotick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 roared roar VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Catch Catch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 waddled waddle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 in in ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mustache mustache NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 blowing blow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 locomotive locomotive NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 24 Matkah Matkah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 Kotick Kotick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 cowered cower VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 35 down down ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 admired admire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roar** | past | Kotick | | | answer | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in answer=Location | | 2 | **waddle** | past | old Sea Catch | | | | | with Catch's mustache on end | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **blow** | gerund | old Sea Catch *not said here* | | | | | like a locomotive | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **go** | past · progressive | Matkah | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive | Matkah *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **cower down** | past | Kotick | | | | | down *property* | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **admire** | past | Kotick *not said here* | their men and folk | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [The Jungle Book, part 12, 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/108/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/2/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/)