The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 104

Then he headed straight for Walrus Islet, a little low sheet of rocky island almost due northeast from Novastoshnah, all ledges and rock and gulls’ nests, where the walrus herded by themselves.

Who acts: Kotick · What happens: head, herd · To what, where: ledges, walrus

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 (Kotick), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 headed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 headed	nsubj
3	headed	head	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	3 headed	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Walrus	case
6	Walrus	Walrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 headed	obl
7	Islet	Islet	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Walrus	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sheet	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sheet	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sheet	amod
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sheet	amod
12	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Walrus	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 island	case
14	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 island	amod
15	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sheet	nmod
16	almost	almost	ADV	_	17 due	advmod
17	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 northeast	amod
18	northeast	northeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 island	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 Novastoshnah	case
20	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 northeast	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ledges	punct
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 ledges	det
23	ledges	ledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 headed	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rock	cc
25	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ledges	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 nests	cc
27	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 nests	nmod:poss
28	’	's	PART	_	27 gulls	case
29	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ledges	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 where	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 ledges	nmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 walrus	det
33	walrus	walrus	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 where	nsubj
34	herded	herd	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 walrus	acl
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 themselves	case
36	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 herded	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 headed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	head	past	Kotick	all ledges and rock and gulls's nests			then	for Walrus; straight property	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	herd	participle		the walrus not said here				by nests = nest	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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