The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 25

That very minute he turned north, swimming steadily, and as he went on he met scores of his mates, all bound for the same place, and they said: “Greeting, Kotick!

Who acts: minute, Kotick, scores · What happens: turn, swim, go, meet, bind, say · To what, where: scores, mates, Greeting · 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 (minute, Kotick, scores), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 minute	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 minute	advmod
3	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	north	north	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 swimming	punct
8	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 turned	advcl
9	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	8 swimming	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	conj
15	on	on	SCONJ	_	17 met	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 met	nsubj
17	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	advcl
18	scores	score	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 met	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 mates	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mates	nmod:poss
21	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 scores	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bound	punct
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 bound	advmod
24	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 mates	acl
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 place	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 place	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 place	amod
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bound	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	conj
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 Greeting	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 Greeting	punct
35	Greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Kotick	punct
37	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Greeting	appos
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	past	that minute		north property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	swim	gerund	that minute not said here		steadily property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	Kotick			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	past	Kotick	scores of Kotick's mates		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=Co-Agent
5	bind	participle		Kotick's mates not said here	for the same place; all property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	say speech: assert	past	scores = score	Greeting		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent greeting=Topic
7	score			Kotick's mates		nom score «cognition transitive»: of=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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