The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 5

Late in October the seals began to leave St. Paul’s for the deep sea, by families and tribes, and there was no more fighting over the nurseries, and the holluschickie played anywhere they liked.

Who acts: Late October, more fighting, holluschickie, seals · What happens: begin, leave, be, play, like · To what, where: Paul

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 (Late October, more fighting, holluschickie, seals), 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	Late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 October	amod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 October	case
3	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 seals	det
5	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 leave	mark
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Paul	nmod:desc
10	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obj
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Paul	case
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sea	amod
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 families	punct
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 families	case
18	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leave	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tribes	cc
20	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 families	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 was	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 was	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	parataxis
25	no	no	ADV	_	27 fighting	advmod
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 fighting	amod
27	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 was	nsubj
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 nurseries	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 nurseries	det
30	nurseries	nursery	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fighting	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 played	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 played	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 holluschickie	det
34	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 played	nsubj
35	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	parataxis
36	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 played	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 liked	nsubj
38	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 played	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Late October				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	leave	to-infinitive	Late October not said here	Paul St.		for the deep sea; by families and tribes	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent paul=Theme by family=Location
3	be	past	more fighting over the nurseries		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play	past	the holluschickie			anywhere property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	like	past	seals = seal				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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