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title: Of course it was not all done at once, for the seals are not very cl… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course it was not all done at once, for the seals are not very clever, and they need a long time to turn things over in their minds, but year after year more seals went away from Novastoshnah, and Lukannon, and the other nurseries, to the quiet, sheltered beaches where Kotick sits all the summer 
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 19

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Of course it was not all done at once, for the seals are not very clever, and they need a long time to turn things over in their minds, but year after year more seals went away from Novastoshnah, and Lukannon, and the other nurseries, to the quiet, sheltered beaches where Kotick sits all the summer through, getting bigger and fatter and stronger each year, while the holluschickie play around him, in that sea where no man comes.

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**Who acts:** seals, holluschickie, year more seals, other nurseries, Kotick, man · **What happens:** not do, not be, need, turn over, go, shelter · **To what, where:** course, things, minds, beaches

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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 (seals, holluschickie, year more seals, other nurseries), 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:pg236:13:19
# text = Of course it was not all done at once, for the seals are not very clever, and they need a long time to turn things over in their minds, but year after year more seals went away from Novastoshnah, and Lukannon, and the other nurseries, to the quiet, sheltered beaches where Kotick sits all the summer through, getting bigger and fatter and stronger each year, while the holluschickie play around him, in that sea where no man comes.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	7	advmod	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	over	over	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
35	after	after	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	amod	_	_
38	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
40	away	away	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	Lukannon	Lukannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	nurseries	nursery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
56	sheltered	shelter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
57	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	_
58	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	60	advmod	_	_
59	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
60	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	acl:relcl	_	_
61	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	63	det:predet	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	_
64	through	through	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
66	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	60	advcl	_	_
67	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	66	xcomp	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	fatter	fat	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	67	conj	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
71	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	67	conj	_	_
72	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	73	det	_	_
73	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	78	punct	_	_
75	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	78	mark	_	_
76	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	78	det	_	_
77	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	compound	_	_
78	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
79	around	around	ADP	IN	_	80	case	_	_
80	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	78	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	84	punct	_	_
82	in	in	ADP	IN	_	84	case	_	_
83	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	84	det	_	_
84	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	parataxis	_	_
85	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	88	advmod	_	_
86	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	87	det	_	_
87	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	88	nsubj	_	_
88	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	84	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
89	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past · passive |  | course |  |  |  | Lukannon *obl*; all *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | the seals |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | present | holluschickie |  |  |  | time |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **turn over** | to-infinitive | holluschickie *not said here* | things |  | holluschickie's minds |  | over *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | year more seals |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **shelter** | past | the other nurseries and the quiet | beaches |  |  |  | the holluschickie play around Kotick *obl* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Patient |
| 7 | **sit** | present | Kotick |  |  |  | summer | through *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **get** | gerund | Kotick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **come** | present | no man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **mind** |  | holluschickie |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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