The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 64
Then he stepped near and the seals began to move, and Kerick headed them inland, and they never tried to get back to their companions.
Who acts: Patalamon, seals, Kerick · What happens: step, begin, move, head, not try, get back · To what, where: seals
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 (Patalamon, seals, Kerick), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 stepped | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seals | det |
| 7 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stepped | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 move | mark |
| 10 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 headed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 headed | cc |
| 13 | Kerick | Kerick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 headed | nsubj |
| 14 | headed | head | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stepped | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 headed | obj |
| 16 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 14 headed | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tried | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tried | nsubj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 tried | advmod |
| 21 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stepped | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 tried | xcomp |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 get | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 companions | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 companions | nmod:poss |
| 27 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 back | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | Patalamon | then | near property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the seals | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | move | to-infinitive | the seals not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | head | past | Kerick | seals = seal | inland property | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | not try | past | seals = seal | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | get back not said to happen | to-infinitive | seals = seal not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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