The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 10

If the beach was good and hard, with a slope behind it for seals to play on, there was always the smoke of a whaler on the horizon, boiling down blubber, and Kotick knew what that meant.

Who acts: beach, smoke, Kotick, that, whaler · What happens: be, play on, boil down, know, mean, smoke · To what, where: blubber · 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 (beach, smoke, Kotick, that), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 good	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beach	det
3	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 good	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hard	cc
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 good	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slope	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 slope	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 slope	det
11	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 good	parataxis
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slope	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 seals	case
15	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 slope	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 play	mark
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seals	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 play	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 was	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slope	parataxis
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 smoke	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 smoke	det
24	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 was	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 whaler	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 whaler	det
27	whaler	whaler	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 smoke	nmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 horizon	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horizon	det
30	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whaler	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 boiling	punct
32	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 smoke	conj
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 boiling	compound:prt
34	blubber	blubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 boiling	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 knew	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 knew	cc
37	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 knew	nsubj
38	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 good	conj
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 meant	obj
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 meant	nsubj
41	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 knew	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the beach			good property	tree rules
2	be		the beach not said here				tree rules
3	play on	to-infinitive	the beach not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be	past	the smoke of a whaler on the horizon		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	boil down	gerund	the smoke of a whaler on the horizon not said here	blubber			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blubber=Topic
6	know	past	Kotick				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	mean	past	that				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
8	smoke		a whaler on the horizon				nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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