The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 98
“I’ve followed the poltoos [the halibut] for twenty years, and I can’t say I’ve found it yet.
Who acts: I · What happens: follow, not say, have, find · To what, where: I, Island · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 4 followed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | aux:pass |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 poltoos | det |
| 6 | poltoos | poltoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 followed | obj |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 halibut | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 halibut | det |
| 9 | halibut | halibut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 poltoos | appos |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 9 halibut | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 12 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 followed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 say | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 say | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 say | nsubj |
| 17 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 say | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 say | advmod |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 followed | parataxis |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ’ve | nsubj |
| 21 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | parataxis |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 say | ccomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 22 found | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow in a quote | present · passive | I | year | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme poltoo=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert in a quote | can | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | past | Island | yet | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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