The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 111

Sea Catch was fifteen years old, a huge gray fur seal with almost a mane on his shoulders, and long, wicked dog teeth.

Who acts: Sea Catch · What happens: be

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 Catch), 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	2 Catch	compound
2	Catch	Catch	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
4	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seal	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 seal	det
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seal	amod
10	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seal	amod
11	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seal	compound
12	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 mane	case
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 mane	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mane	det
16	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seal	nmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 shoulders	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shoulders	nmod:poss
19	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mane	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 teeth	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 teeth	cc
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 teeth	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 long	punct
24	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 teeth	amod
25	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 teeth	compound
26	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Sea Catch				year	a huge gray fur seal with a mane on Catch's shoulders obl; old property	tree rules

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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