The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 30

And so they all came to the beaches where they had been born, and heard the old seals, their fathers, fighting in the rolling mist.

Who acts: bones · What happens: come, bear, hear, fight, roll · To what, where: beaches, bones, old seals, rolling mist

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 (bones), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	det
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 beaches	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beaches	det
8	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 born	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 born	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 born	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 born	aux:pass
13	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 beaches	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 seals	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 seals	amod
19	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heard	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fathers	punct
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fathers	nmod:poss
22	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seals	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fighting	punct
24	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 heard	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 mist	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mist	det
27	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 mist	amod
28	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fighting	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	bones = bone		the beaches	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location
2	bear	past · perfect · passive		bones = bone		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	hear	past	bones = bone not said here	the old seals and bones's fathers		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer seal=Stimulus
4	fight	gerund	bones = bone not said here		the rolling mist	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	roll	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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