The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 34

They talked about the Pacific as boys would talk about a wood that they had been nutting in, and if anyone had understood them he could have gone away and made such a chart of that ocean as never was.

Who acts: seals, boys, sea · What happens: talk, nut, understand, go away, make, not be · To what, where: anyone, chart, ocean

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 (seals, boys, sea), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 Pacific	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Pacific	det
5	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 talked	obl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 talk	mark
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 talk	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 talk	aux
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talked	advcl
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talk	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 nutting	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 nutting	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 nutting	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 nutting	aux
17	nutting	nut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 talk	advcl
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 nutting	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gone	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gone	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 understood	mark
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 understood	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 understood	aux
24	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 gone	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 understood	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gone	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 gone	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 gone	aux
29	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 talked	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 gone	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 made	cc
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 chart	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 chart	det
35	chart	chart	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 ocean	case
37	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 ocean	det
38	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 chart	nmod
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 was	mark
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 was	advmod
41	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 made	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	past	seals = seal		about the Pacific	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about pacific=Topic
2	talk	would	boys		about a wood	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about wood=Topic
3	nut	past · perfect · progressive	seals = seal			vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	understand a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		anyone		tree rules
5	go away	could · perfect	sea		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	past	seals = seal not said here	such chart of that ocean		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chart=Product
7	not be	past	seals = seal not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	chart			that ocean		nom chart «communication 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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