The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 83

At Sea Lion’s Neck, where the great sea lions sit on the edge of the surf, he flung himself flipper-overhead into the cool water and rocked there, gasping miserably.

Who acts: great sea lions, Lion · What happens: sit, fling, rock, gasp · To what, where: Neck, Lion, cool water

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 (great sea lions, Lion), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 Neck	case
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Lion	compound
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Neck	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Lion	case
5	Neck	Neck	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sit	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 sit	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lions	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lions	amod
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lions	compound
11	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sit	nsubj
12	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 edge	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 edge	det
15	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sit	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 surf	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 surf	det
18	surf	surf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 edge	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flung	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 flung	nsubj
21	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sit	parataxis
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 flung	obj
23	flipper	flipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 overhead	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 flipper	punct
25	overhead	overhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flung	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 water	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
28	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 water	amod
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flung	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rocked	cc
31	rocked	rock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 flung	conj
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 rocked	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gasping	punct
34	gasping	gasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 rocked	advcl
35	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	34 gasping	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the great sea lions		Sea Lion's Neck	on the edge of the surf	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at neck=Location
2	fling	past	Lion	Lion	the cool water		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Destination overhead=Theme
3	rock	past	Lion not said here		there		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	gasp	gerund	Lion not said here			miserably property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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