The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 66

Kotick was the only one who asked questions, and none of his companions could tell him anything, except that the men always drove seals in that way for six weeks or two months of every year.

Who acts: Kotick, only one, none, men · What happens: be, ask, tell, drive · To what, where: only one, questions, anything, Kotick, seals, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Kotick, only one, none, 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	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 asked	nsubj
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 asked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	16 tell	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 companions	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 companions	nmod:poss
14	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 none	nmod
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asked	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 tell	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drove	punct
20	except	except	ADP	_	25 drove	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 drove	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 men	det
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 drove	nsubj
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 drove	advmod
25	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	conj
26	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 drove	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 way	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 way	det
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drove	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 weeks	case
31	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 weeks	nummod
32	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 drove	obl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 months	cc
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 months	nummod
35	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 weeks	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 year	case
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 year	det
38	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 months	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Kotick	the only one					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	the only one	questions					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	could	none	anything	Kotick				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Topic
4	drive	past	the men	seals		that way	week	always property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seal=Theme in way=Destination

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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