The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 10

“In a little time,” she said, “you’ll know where to swim to, but just now we’ll follow Sea Pig, the Porpoise, for he is very wise.”

Who acts: fighting, you, we, sea · What happens: say, know, swim, follow, be · To what, where: Sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fighting, you, we, sea), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	5 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
13	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 swim	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 swim	mark
17	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 know	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	17 swim	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 follow	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 follow	cc
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 now	advmod
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 follow	advmod
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 follow	nsubj
24	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 follow	aux
25	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 know	conj
26	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 follow	obj
27	Pig	Pig	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Sea	flat
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Porpoise	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Porpoise	det
30	Porpoise	Porpoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Sea	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 wise	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 wise	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wise	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 wise	cop
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 wise	advmod
36	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 follow	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	fighting		time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	future	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	swim in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	follow in a quote	future	we	Sea and the Porpoise	now		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	sea			wise property	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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