The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 122

Sea Catch had just finished his forty-fifth fight one spring when Matkah, his soft, sleek, gentle-eyed wife, came up out of the sea, and he caught her by the scruff of the neck and dumped her down on his reservation, saying gruffly: “Late as usual.

Who acts: Matkah, Catch · What happens: finish, come up, catch, dump down, say, fight · To what, where: Sea Catch, sea, Novastoshnah, reservation · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Matkah, 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Catch	compound
2	Catch	Catch	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 finished	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 finished	advmod
5	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fight	nmod:poss
7	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 fifth	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 forty	punct
9	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fight	amod
10	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finished	obj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 spring	nummod
12	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finished	obl:unmarked
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 came	advmod
14	Matkah	Matkah	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wife	punct
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
17	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wife	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sleek	punct
19	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 soft	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 soft	punct
21	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eyed	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 gentle	punct
23	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wife	amod
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Matkah	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Matkah	punct
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	advcl
27	up	up	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	out	out	ADP	_	31 sea	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 sea	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 caught	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 caught	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 caught	nsubj
35	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	parataxis
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 caught	obj
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 scruff	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 scruff	det
39	scruff	scruff	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 caught	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 neck	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 neck	det
42	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 scruff	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 dumped	cc
44	dumped	dump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 caught	conj
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 dumped	obj
46	down	down	ADP	_	44 dumped	compound:prt
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 reservation	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 reservation	nmod:poss
49	reservation	reservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 dumped	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 saying	punct
51	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 dumped	advcl
52	gruffly	gruffly	ADV	_	51 saying	advmod
53	:	:	PUNCT	_	55 Late	punct
54	“	"	PUNCT	_	55 Late	punct
55	Late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 saying	ccomp
56	as	as	ADP	_	57 usual	case
57	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 Late	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect · passive		Sea Catch		spring		tree rules
2	come up	past	Matkah		the sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out sea=Initial_Location
3	catch	past	Matkah	Novastoshnah			by the scruff of the neck	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	dump down	past	Matkah not said here	Novastoshnah	Catch's reservation			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme on reservation=Trajectory
5	say speech: assert	gerund	Matkah not said here				gruffly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	fight		Catch					nom fight «act transitive»: poss=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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