The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 22
At the end of six months what Kotick did not know about deep-sea fishing was not worth the knowing.
Who acts: Kotick, knowing · What happens: not know, not be, know · To what, where: six months · 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, knowing), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 months | case |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 months | nummod |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 know | obj |
| 8 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 know | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 months | acl:relcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 fishing | case |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sea | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 deep | punct |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fishing | compound |
| 16 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 worth | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 worth | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 worth | advmod |
| 19 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 know | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 knowing | det |
| 21 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 worth | csubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Kotick | six months | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | knowing | about sea fishing; worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/22/