The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 68
“The white seal is coming after us,” cried Patalamon.
Who acts: white seal · What happens: come, cry · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 coming | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seal | det |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seal | amod |
| 4 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 coming | aux |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 coming | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 coming | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 coming | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Patalamon | Patalamon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · progressive | the white seal | after us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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