The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 134
There he found that no one sympathized with him in his little attempt to discover a quiet place for the seals.
Who acts: Kotick · What happens: find, sympathize, discover, attempt · To what, where: one, little attempt, quiet place
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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 found | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 one | mark |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 7 | sympathized | sympathize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 one | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sympathized | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 attempt | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 attempt | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 attempt | amod |
| 13 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sympathized | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 discover | mark |
| 15 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 attempt | acl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 17 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 discover | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 seals | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 seals | det |
| 21 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 place | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Kotick | no one | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||
| 2 | sympathize | participle | no one not said here | Kotick's little attempt | with Kotick | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | discover | to-infinitive | a quiet place | for the seals | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 4 | attempt | Kotick | nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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