The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 115
Yet Sea Catch never chased a beaten seal, for that was against the Rules of the Beach.
Who acts: Sea, that · What happens: not chase, beat, be · To what, where: beaten seal
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, that), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 chased | cc |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chased | nsubj |
| 3 | Catch | Catch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sea | flat |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 chased | advmod |
| 5 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 seal | det |
| 7 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seal | amod |
| 8 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chased | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Rules | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Rules | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 Rules | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Rules | cop |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 Rules | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rules | det |
| 15 | Rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chased | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Beach | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Beach | det |
| 18 | Beach | Beach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Rules | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not chase | past | Sea | a beaten seal | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | that | for the Rules; of the Beach | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/10/115/