The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 107

Nobody comes to Novastoshnah except on business, and the only people who have regular business there are the seals.

Who acts: Nobody, only people, seals · What happens: come, have, be · To what, where: only people, Novastoshnah, regular business

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 (Nobody, only people, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Novastoshnah	case
4	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
5	except	except	ADP	_	7 business	case
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 business	case
7	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 people	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 people	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
11	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 people	acl:relcl
15	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 business	amod
16	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 are	expl
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 have	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 seals	det
20	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 are	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Nobody	the only people	Novastoshnah	except business	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to novastoshnah=Initial_Location
2	have	present	the only people	regular business			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient
3	does	present	the seals		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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