The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 148
Kotick, Matkah’s baby, was born in the middle of that confusion, and he was all head and shoulders, with pale, watery blue eyes, as tiny seals must be, but there was something about his coat that made his mother look at him very closely.
Who acts: Kotick, tiny seals, something, coat, mother · What happens: bear, be, make, look · To what, where: Kotick, middle, head
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 (Kotick, tiny seals, something, coat), 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 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 baby | punct |
| 3 | Matkah | Matkah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 baby | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Matkah | case |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kotick | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kotick | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | aux:pass |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 middle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 middle | det |
| 11 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 born | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 confusion | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 confusion | det |
| 14 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 middle | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 head | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 head | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 head | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 head | cop |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 head | det |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 born | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shoulders | cc |
| 22 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 head | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 eyes | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 eyes | case |
| 25 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 eyes | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pale | punct |
| 27 | watery | watery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 eyes | amod |
| 28 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 eyes | amod |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 born | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 be | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 be | mark |
| 32 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 seals | amod |
| 33 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 be | nsubj |
| 34 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 be | aux |
| 35 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 born | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 was | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 was | cc |
| 38 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 39 was | expl |
| 39 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | parataxis |
| 40 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 39 was | nsubj |
| 41 | about | about | ADP | _ | 43 coat | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 coat | nmod:poss |
| 43 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 something | nmod |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 made | nsubj |
| 45 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 coat | acl:relcl |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 mother | nmod:poss |
| 47 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 look | nsubj |
| 48 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 made | xcomp |
| 49 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 him | case |
| 50 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 look | obl |
| 51 | very | very | ADV | _ | 52 closely | advmod |
| 52 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 48 look | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Kotick | the middle of that confusion | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Kotick | all head and shoulders | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | must | tiny seals | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | past | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | past | Seal's coat | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | look | infinitive | Seal's mother | at Seal; closely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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