The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 32

The sea is full of fire on summer nights all the way down from Novastoshnah to Lukannon, and each seal leaves a wake like burning oil behind him and a flaming flash when he jumps, and the waves break in great phosphorescent streaks and swirls.

Who acts: sea, seal, wake, waves · What happens: be, leave, burn, jump, break · To what, where: wake, oil, great phosphorescent streaks

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 (sea, seal, wake, waves), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fire	case
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 nights	case
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nights	compound
9	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 way	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nights	nmod
13	down	down	ADV	_	15 Novastoshnah	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 Novastoshnah	case
15	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 way	appos
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Lukannon	case
17	Lukannon	Lukannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Novastoshnah	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 leaves	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 leaves	cc
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 seal	det
21	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leaves	nsubj
22	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wake	det
24	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leaves	obj
25	like	like	SCONJ	_	26 burning	mark
26	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 wake	acl
27	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 burning	obj
28	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 burning	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 flash	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 flash	det
32	flaming	flaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flash	compound
33	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 him	conj
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 jumps	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 jumps	nsubj
36	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 burning	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 break	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 break	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 waves	det
40	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 break	nsubj
41	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 leaves	parataxis
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 streaks	case
43	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 streaks	amod
44	phosphorescent	phosphorescent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 streaks	amod
45	streaks	streak	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 break	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 swirls	cc
47	swirls	swirl	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 streaks	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sea			night	of fire; full property	tree rules
2	leave	present	each seal	a wake				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wake=Theme
3	burn	gerund	a wake not said here	oil			behind sea	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent oil=Theme
4	jump	present	sea					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	break	present	the waves		great phosphorescent streaks and swirls			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in streak=Location

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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