The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 69
“That’s the first time a seal has ever come to the killing-grounds alone.”
Who acts: That, seal · What happens: be, come · To what, where: first time
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 (That, 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 time | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 seal | det |
| 8 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 come | advmod |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 grounds | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grounds | det |
| 14 | killing | killing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grounds | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 killing | punct |
| 16 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 come | obl |
| 17 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | a seal | the first time not said here | ever | to the killing grounds; alone property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme |
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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