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title: But next spring, when they all met off the fishing banks of the Paci… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But next spring, when they all met off the fishing banks of the Pacific, Kotick’s seals told such tales of the new beaches beyond Sea Cow’s tunnel that more and more seals left Novastoshnah. Who acts: holluschickie, seals, more seals, new beaches. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 18

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But next spring, when they all met off the fishing banks of the Pacific, Kotick’s seals told such tales of the new beaches beyond Sea Cow’s tunnel that more and more seals left Novastoshnah.

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**Who acts:** holluschickie, seals, more seals, new beaches · **What happens:** meet, tell, leave · **To what, where:** such tales, tunnel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (holluschickie, seals, more seals, new beaches), 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:pg236:13:18
# text = But next spring, when they all met off the fishing banks of the Pacific, Kotick’s seals told such tales of the new beaches beyond Sea Cow’s tunnel that more and more seals left Novastoshnah.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Cow	Cow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
33	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	amod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	conj	_	_
36	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
38	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | holluschickie |  |  |  | spring | off the fishing banks of the Pacific | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Kotick's seals | such tales of the new beaches beyond Sea Cow's tunnel |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 3 | **leave** | past | more seals | Sea Cow's tunnel |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme novastoshnah=Attribute |
| 4 | **tell** |  | the new beaches beyond Sea Cow's tunnel |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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