The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 51
There has never been a white seal since--since I was born.
Who acts: white seal · What happens: not be, bear · To what, where: I
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 (white seal), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 been | expl |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 been | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 been | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 seal | det |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seal | amod |
| 7 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 been | nsubj |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 13 born | mark |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 born | punct |
| 10 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 13 born | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 born | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 born | aux:pass |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 been | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 been | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present · perfect | a white seal | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | I | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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