The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 104
All these things happened several years ago at a place called Novastoshnah, or North East Point, on the Island of St. Paul, away and away in the Bering Sea.
Who acts: things · What happens: happen, call · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 things | det:predet |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 things | det |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 years | amod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 place | acl |
| 12 | Novastoshnah | Novastoshnah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 away | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 away | cc |
| 15 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 East | compound |
| 16 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Point | compound |
| 17 | Point | Point | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 away | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Island | punct |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 Island | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Island | det |
| 21 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Point | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Paul | case |
| 23 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Paul | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Island | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 away | punct |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 away | cc |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 away | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Sea | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Sea | det |
| 31 | Bering | Bering | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Sea | compound |
| 32 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 away | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | all things | a place | ago, away property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at place=Location | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a place not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
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