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title: “My wig!” said old Sea Catch, boosting himself up stiffly, for he wa… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “My wig!” said old Sea Catch, boosting himself up stiffly, for he was fearfully mauled. Who acts: wig. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 5

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“My wig!” said old Sea Catch, boosting himself up stiffly, for he was fearfully mauled.

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**Who acts:** wig · **What happens:** say, boost up, maul · **To what, where:** old Sea Catch, Catch · **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 (wig), 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:pg236:13:5
# text = “My wig!” said old Sea Catch, boosting himself up stiffly, for he was fearfully mauled.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wig	wig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	boosting	boost	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	stiffly	stiffly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	mauled	maul	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | My wig | old Sea Catch |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent catch=Topic |
| 2 | **boost up** | gerund | My wig *not said here* | Catch |  |  |  | stiffly *property* | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **maul** | past · passive |  | Catch |  |  |  | fearfully *property* | tree rules |

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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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