The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 110
Sea Catch knew that, and every spring would swim from whatever place he happened to be in--would swim like a torpedo-boat straight for Novastoshnah and spend a month fighting with his companions for a good place on the rocks, as close to the sea as possible.
Who acts: Sea, spring, place · What happens: know, swim, happen, spend, fight · To what, where: whatever
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 (Sea, spring, place), 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 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | Catch | Catch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 3 knew | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swim | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 swim | cc |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 spring | det |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swim | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 swim | aux |
| 10 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 whatever | case |
| 12 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 swim | obl |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 in | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 in | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 happened | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 swim | punct |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 swim | aux |
| 21 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 swim | conj |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 boat | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 boat | det |
| 24 | torpedo | torpedo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 boat | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 torpedo | punct |
| 26 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swim | obl |
| 27 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 29 Novastoshnah | advmod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 Novastoshnah | case |
| 29 | Novastoshnah | Novastoshnah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 swim | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 spend | cc |
| 31 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 swim | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 month | det |
| 33 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spend | obj |
| 34 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 spend | advcl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 companions | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 companions | nmod:poss |
| 37 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 fighting | obl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 place | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 place | det |
| 40 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 place | amod |
| 41 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fighting | obl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 rocks | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 rocks | det |
| 44 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 place | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 close | punct |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 close | case |
| 47 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 spend | advcl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 sea | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 sea | det |
| 50 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 close | obl |
| 51 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 52 possible | mark |
| 52 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 close | advcl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Sea | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | swim | would | every spring | whatever | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from whatever=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | place | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | swim | would | every spring not said here | like a torpedo boat; for Novastoshnah | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spend | infinitive | every spring not said here | month | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | fight | gerund | every spring not said here | with place's companions; for a good place on the rocks | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with companion=Co-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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