The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 105

He landed close to old Sea Vitch--the big, ugly, bloated, pimpled, fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep--as he was then, with his hind flippers half in and half out of the surf.

Who acts: walrus, long tusked walrus · What happens: land, bloat, neck, tusk, have, be · To what, where: manners

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 (walrus, long tusked walrus), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 landed	nsubj
2	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 landed	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 Vitch	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Vitch	amod
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Vitch	compound
7	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 close	obl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 bloated	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bloated	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bloated	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ugly	punct
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 big	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bloated	punct
14	bloated	bloat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 landed	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pimpled	punct
16	pimpled	pimpled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bloated	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 necked	punct
18	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 necked	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 fat	punct
20	necked	neck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 pimpled	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 walrus	punct
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 walrus	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 long	punct
24	tusked	tusk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 walrus	amod
25	walrus	walrus	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 necked	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 Pacific	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Pacific	det
28	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Pacific	compound
29	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 walrus	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 has	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 has	nsubj
32	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 walrus	parataxis
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 manners	det
34	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	32 has	obj
35	except	except	ADP	_	39 asleep	mark
36	when	when	SCONJ	_	39 asleep	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 asleep	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 asleep	cop
39	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 manners	advcl
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 then	punct
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 then	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 then	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 then	cop
44	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 has	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 flippers	punct
46	with	with	ADP	_	49 flippers	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 flippers	nmod:poss
48	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 flippers	amod
49	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 then	obl
50	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	51 in	advmod
51	in	in	ADV	_	49 flippers	advmod
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 surf	cc
53	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	57 surf	advmod
54	out	out	ADP	_	57 surf	case
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 surf	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 surf	det
57	surf	surf	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 in	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 landed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	land	past	walrus		close property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	bloat	participle	walrus not said here		big property	tree rules
3	neck	participle	walrus not said here			vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tusk	participle				tree rules
5	have	present	long tusked walrus of the North Pacific	no manners		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient
6	is	present	walrus		asleep property	tree rules
7	is	past	walrus		with walrus's hind flippers; then 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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