The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 7

They set out together across the Pacific, and Matkah showed Kotick how to sleep on his back with his flippers tucked down by his side and his little nose just out of the water.

Who acts: seals, Matkah · What happens: set out, show, sleep, tuck down · To what, where: Pacific, Kotick, back, flippers · 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 (seals, Matkah), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	together	together	ADV	_	2 set	advmod
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 Pacific	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Pacific	det
7	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 showed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 showed	cc
10	Matkah	Matkah	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 showed	nsubj
11	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
12	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 showed	obj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 sleep	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sleep	mark
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 showed	ccomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 back	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 back	nmod:poss
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sleep	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 flippers	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 flippers	nmod:poss
21	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sleep	obl
22	tucked	tuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 flippers	acl
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 tucked	compound:prt
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 side	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 side	nmod:poss
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tucked	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 nose	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 nose	nmod:poss
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 nose	amod
30	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flippers	conj
31	just	just	ADV	_	35 water	advmod
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 water	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sleep	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	past	seals = seal		the Pacific	together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across pacific=Initial_Location
2	show	past	Matkah	Kotick			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent kotick=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sleep	to-infinitive			Matkah's back	with Matkah's flippers and Matkah's little nose; out the water	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tuck down	participle		Matkah's flippers and Matkah's little nose not said here		by Matkah's side	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by side=Trajectory

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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