The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 159

Matkah used to go to sea to get things to eat, and the baby was fed only once in two days, but then he ate all he could and throve upon it.

Who acts: Matkah, things · What happens: use, go, get, eat, feed, throve · To what, where: sea, things, baby

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, things), 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	Matkah	Matkah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 sea	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	advcl
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 get	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 baby	det
15	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fed	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fed	aux:pass
17	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 used	conj
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 once	advmod
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 fed	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 days	case
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 days	nummod
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ate	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 ate	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 ate	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ate	nsubj
27	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 throve	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 throve	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 throve	aux
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 throve	cc
32	throve	throve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ate	ccomp
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 throve	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	Matkah					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go	to-infinitive	Matkah not said here		sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location
3	get	to-infinitive	Matkah not said here	things				tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	things not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	feed	past · passive		the baby		day	once property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
6	eat	past	Matkah			then		tree rules
7	throve	could	Matkah				upon baby	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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