The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 117
“Go and find out,” said Sea Vitch, shutting his eyes.
Who acts: Sea · What happens: go, find out, say, shut · To what, where: eyes · 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 (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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 find | cc |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 find | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | Vitch | Vitch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sea | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shutting | punct |
| 12 | shutting | shut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shutting | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | find out in a quote | infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Sea | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | shut | gerund | Sea not said here | sea's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=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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