The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 102

Limmershin told me that never in his life--and Limmershin sees ten thousand big seals fighting every year--never in all his little life did he see anything like Kotick’s charge into the nurseries.

Who acts: Limmershin, thousand big seals, Kotick · What happens: tell, see, fight, not see, charge · To what, where: me, thousand big seals, anything, little life · 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 (Limmershin, thousand big seals, Kotick), 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	Limmershin	Limmershin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 life	mark
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 life	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 life	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	ccomp
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 sees	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sees	cc
11	Limmershin	Limmershin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sees	nsubj
12	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
13	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 thousand	compound
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 seals	nummod
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 seals	amod
16	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sees	obj
17	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 seals	acl
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 year	det
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fighting	obl:unmarked
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 see	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 life	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 life	det:predet
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 life	nmod:poss
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 life	amod
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obl
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sees	conj
30	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 see	obj
31	like	like	ADP	_	34 charge	case
32	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 charge	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 Kotick	case
34	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 anything	nmod
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 nurseries	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 nurseries	det
37	nurseries	nursery	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 see	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Limmershin		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see	present	Limmershin	thousand big seals					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seal=Stimulus
3	fight	gerund	thousand big seals not said here				year		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not see	past · do-support	Limmershin	anything		Limmershin's little life		like Kotick's charge; into the nurseries	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
5	charge		Kotick						nom charge «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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