The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 96

“I suppose it is rather awful from your way of looking at it, but if you seals will come here year after year, of course the men get to know of it, and unless you can find an island where no men ever come you will always be driven.”

Who acts: Sea Lion, swimming, way, you, men · What happens: suppose, be, look, come, get, know · To what, where: way, island, you · 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, swimming, way, you), 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	_	3 suppose	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 suppose	nsubj
3	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 awful	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 awful	cop
6	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 awful	advmod
7	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 suppose	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod:poss
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 awful	obl
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 looking	mark
12	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 way	acl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
19	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 you	nmod:unmarked
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 suppose	conj
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 come	advmod
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl:unmarked
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 year	case
25	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 men	case
28	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 of	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 men	det
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 get	nsubj
31	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 suppose	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 know	mark
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 get	xcomp
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 know	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 find	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 find	cc
38	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	41 find	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 find	nsubj
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 find	aux
41	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 suppose	advcl
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 island	det
43	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 find	obj
44	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	48 come	advmod
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 men	det
46	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 come	nsubj
47	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	48 come	advmod
48	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 island	acl:relcl
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 driven	nsubj
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 driven	aux
51	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	53 driven	advmod
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 driven	aux:pass
53	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 come	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suppose in a quote	present	the Sea Lion = lion					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	swimming		your way		awful property	tree rules
3	look in a quote	gerund	your way not said here				at swimming	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you		here	year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get in a quote	present	the men					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	know in a quote	to-infinitive	the men not said here				of swimming	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
7	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	a island				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic
8	come in a quote	present	no men			ever		tree rules
9	drive in a quote	future · passive		you			always property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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