The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 116
So he called out: “Isn’t there any place for seals to go where men don’t ever come?”
Who acts: Kotick, men · What happens: call out, go, not come · To what, where: place · 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 (Kotick, men), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 called | compound:prt |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 n’t | punct |
| 7 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 n’t | cop |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 place | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 n’t | expl |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 seals | case |
| 13 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 place | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 place | acl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 come | advmod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 come | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 come | advmod |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 come | advmod |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | advcl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 place | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: ask | past | Kotick | any place for seals | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | Kotick not said here | any place for seals not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not come in a quote | present · do-support | men | ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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