The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 43
The men were no less than Kerick Booterin, the chief of the seal-hunters on the island, and Patalamon, his son.
Who acts: men · What happens: not be
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 (men), 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 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 less | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 less | cop |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 less | advmod |
| 5 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 Kerick | case |
| 7 | Kerick | Kerick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 less | obl |
| 8 | Booterin | Booterin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Kerick | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chief | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chief | det |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Kerick | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hunters | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hunters | det |
| 14 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hunters | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 seal | punct |
| 16 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chief | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hunters | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Patalamon | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Patalamon | cc |
| 22 | Patalamon | Patalamon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Kerick | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 son | punct |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Patalamon | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 less | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the men | than Kerick and Patalamon; less property | tree rules |
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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