The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 122
He knew that Sea Vitch never caught a fish in his life but always rooted for clams and seaweed; though he pretended to be a very terrible person.
Who acts: Kotick, Sea · What happens: know, not catch, root, pretend, be · To what, where: fish, life, terrible person · 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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 caught | mark |
| 4 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | Vitch | Vitch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sea | flat |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 caught | advmod |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fish | det |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 rooted | cc |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 rooted | advmod |
| 15 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 caught | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 clams | case |
| 17 | clams | clam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rooted | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seaweed | cc |
| 19 | seaweed | seaweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clams | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 pretended | punct |
| 21 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 pretended | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pretended | nsubj |
| 23 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 person | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 person | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 person | det |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 terrible | advmod |
| 28 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 person | amod |
| 29 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pretended | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Kotick | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not catch | past | Sea | a fish | Kotick's life | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | |||
| 3 | root | participle | Sea not said here | for clams and seaweed; always property | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for clam=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pretend | past | Kotick | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | Kotick not said here | a terrible person | 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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