The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 160

The first thing he did was to crawl inland, and there he met tens of thousands of babies of his own age, and they played together like puppies, went to sleep on the clean sand, and played again.

Who acts: Matkah, first thing, things · What happens: do, be, meet, play, go, sleep · To what, where: first thing, tens, clean sand

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, first thing, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crawl	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crawl	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 crawl	mark
8	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	inland	inland	ADV	_	8 crawl	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 met	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 met	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 met	expl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 met	nsubj
14	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crawl	parataxis
15	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 met	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 thousands	case
17	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tens	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 babies	case
19	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thousands	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 age	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 age	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 age	amod
23	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 babies	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 played	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 played	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 played	nsubj
27	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crawl	parataxis
28	together	together	ADV	_	27 played	advmod
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 puppies	case
30	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 played	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 played	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 sleep	mark
34	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 went	xcomp
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 sand	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sand	det
37	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sand	amod
38	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sleep	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 played	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 played	cc
41	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 went	conj
42	again	again	ADV	_	41 played	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 crawl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Matkah	the first thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	is	past	the first thing				crawl, inland property	tree rules
3	meet	past	Matkah	tens of thousands of babies of Matkah's own age	there			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Co-Agent
4	play	past	things = thing				like puppies; together property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	past	things = thing not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sleep	to-infinitive	things = thing not said here		the clean sand			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	play	past	things = thing not said here			again		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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