The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 1
“What you must do,” said old Sea Catch, after he had heard his son’s adventures, “is to grow up and be a big seal like your father, and have a nursery on the beach, and then they will leave you alone.
Who acts: you, old Sea Catch, he, adventures, son · What happens: do, say, hear, be, have, leave · To what, where: adventures, big seal, nursery, beach, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old Sea Catch, he, adventures), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Catch | amod |
| 10 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Catch | compound |
| 11 | Catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 heard | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | aux |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 son | case |
| 20 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 heard | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grow | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 grow | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 grow | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 grow | mark |
| 25 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 heard | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 grow | compound:prt |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 seal | cc |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 seal | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 seal | det |
| 30 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 seal | amod |
| 31 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grow | conj |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 father | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 father | nmod:poss |
| 34 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seal | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 have | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 have | cc |
| 37 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 nursery | det |
| 39 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 have | obj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 beach | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 beach | det |
| 42 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 have | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 leave | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 leave | cc |
| 45 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 leave | advmod |
| 46 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 leave | nsubj |
| 47 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 leave | aux |
| 48 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 have | conj |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 leave | obj |
| 50 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 48 leave | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | must | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | old Sea Catch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | he | his son's adventures | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer adventure=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | he not said here | grow property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | infinitive | he not said here | a big seal | like your father | tree rules | |||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | a nursery | the beach | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nursery=Patient | ||||
| 7 | leave in a quote | future | adventures = adventure | you | then | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||
| 8 | adventure | his son | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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