The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 84

“What’s here?” said a sea lion gruffly, for as a rule the sea lions keep themselves to themselves.

Who acts: sea lion, sea lions · What happens: say, keep · To what, where: Neck · 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 (sea lion, sea lions), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 ’s	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ’s	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lion	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lion	compound
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
11	gruffly	gruffly	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 keep	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 rule	case
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 rule	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 rule	det
16	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 keep	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lions	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lions	compound
19	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 keep	nsubj
20	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 keep	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 themselves	case
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 keep	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a sea lion					gruffly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	keep	present	the sea lions	Neck	Neck			for a rule	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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