--- title: A week later he and his army (nearly ten thousand holluschickie and… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: A week later he and his army (nearly ten thousand holluschickie and old seals) went away north to the Sea Cow’s tunnel, Kotick leading them, and the seals that stayed at Novastoshnah called them idiots. Who acts: Kotick, tunnel, seals. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle B --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/) / 17 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 17 A week later he and his army (nearly ten thousand holluschickie and old seals) went away north to the Sea Cow’s tunnel, Kotick leading them, and the seals that stayed at Novastoshnah called them idiots. **Who acts:** Kotick, tunnel, seals · **What happens:** go away, lead, stay, call · **To what, where:** tunnel, holluschickie, Novastoshnah · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kotick, tunnel, seals), 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:pg236:13:17 # text = A week later he and his army (nearly ten thousand holluschickie and old seals) went away north to the Sea Cow’s tunnel, Kotick leading them, and the seals that stayed at Novastoshnah called them idiots. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 compound _ _ 11 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 holluschickie holluschickie NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 north north ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Cow Cow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’s 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 tunnel tunnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Kotick Kotick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 28 leading lead VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Novastoshnah Novastoshnah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 idiots idiot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go away** | past | Kotick | | | the Sea Cow's tunnel | | away, late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tunnel=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **lead** | gerund | the Sea Cow's tunnel *not said here* | holluschickie | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **stay** | past | the seals | | | Novastoshnah | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at novastoshnah=Location | | 4 | **call** | past | the seals | holluschickie | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/18/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/)