The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 120

Their wives never came to the island until late in May or early in June, for they did not care to be torn to pieces; and the young two-, three-, and four-year-old seals who had not begun housekeeping went inland about half a mile through the ranks of the fighters and played about on the sand dunes in droves and legions, and rubbed off every single green thing that grew.

Who acts: wives, young two old seals, single green thing · What happens: not come, not care, tear, not begin, go, play about · To what, where: island, pieces, housekeeping, mile, ranks, sand dunes

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 (wives, young two old seals, single green thing), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wives	nmod:poss
2	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 island	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 island	det
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	until	until	ADP	_	9 late	case
9	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 May	case
11	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 early	cc
13	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 May	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 June	case
15	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 early	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 care	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 care	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 care	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 care	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 care	advmod
21	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	24 torn	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 torn	aux:pass
24	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 care	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 pieces	case
26	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 torn	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 went	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 went	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 seals	det
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 seals	amod
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 seals	nummod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 two	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 three	punct
34	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 two	conj
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 three	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 seals	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 seals	cc
38	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 year	nummod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 four	punct
40	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 old	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 year	punct
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 seals	amod
43	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 went	nsubj
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 begun	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 begun	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 begun	advmod
47	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 seals	acl:relcl
48	housekeeping	housekeeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 begun	obj
49	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
50	inland	inland	ADV	_	49 went	advmod
51	about	about	ADV	_	52 half	advmod
52	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	54 mile	det:predet
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 mile	det
54	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 went	obl
55	through	through	ADP	_	57 ranks	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 ranks	det
57	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 went	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 fighters	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 fighters	det
60	fighters	fighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 ranks	nmod
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 played	cc
62	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 went	conj
63	about	about	ADV	_	62 played	advmod
64	on	on	ADP	_	67 dunes	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 dunes	det
66	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 dunes	compound
67	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 played	obl
68	in	in	ADP	_	69 droves	case
69	droves	drove	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 dunes	nmod
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 legions	cc
71	legions	legion	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 droves	conj
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 rubbed	punct
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 rubbed	cc
74	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	advcl
75	off	off	ADP	_	74 rubbed	compound:prt
76	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	79 thing	det
77	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 thing	amod
78	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 thing	amod
79	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 rubbed	obj
80	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	81 grew	nsubj
81	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	79 thing	acl:relcl
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	past	miles's wives		the island	may		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location
2	not care	past · do-support	wives = wife					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	tear	to-infinitive · passive	wives = wife not said here		pieces			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: to piece=Destination
4	not begin	past · perfect	the young two old seals	housekeeping				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent housekeeping=Eventuality
5	go	past	the young two old seals	half mile	the ranks of the fighters		inland property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through rank=Initial_Location
6	play about	past	the young two old seals not said here		the sand dunes in droves and legions		about property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	rub off	participle	miles's wives not said here	every single green thing				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
8	grow	past	every single green thing					vn appear-48.1.1 «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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