The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 104
You see, Kotick had never fasted for four months as the big seals did every year, and his deep-sea swimming trips kept him in perfect condition, and, best of all, he had never fought before.
Who acts: You, Kotick, big seals, sea swimming trips, seal · What happens: see, not fast, do, keep, not fight, trip · To what, where: seal, perfect condition · 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, Kotick, big seals, sea swimming trips), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fasted | punct |
| 4 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fasted | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fasted | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 fasted | advmod |
| 7 | fasted | fast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 see | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 months | case |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 months | nummod |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fasted | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 did | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 seals | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seals | amod |
| 14 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fasted | advcl |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 did | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 kept | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 kept | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 trips | nmod:poss |
| 21 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sea | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 deep | punct |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trips | compound |
| 24 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trips | compound |
| 25 | trips | trip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 kept | nsubj |
| 26 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fasted | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 kept | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 condition | case |
| 29 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 condition | amod |
| 30 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kept | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 best | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 best | cc |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 best | punct |
| 34 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 kept | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 all | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 best | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fought | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 fought | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 fought | aux |
| 40 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 41 fought | advmod |
| 41 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 kept | conj |
| 42 | before | before | ADV | _ | 41 fought | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not fast | past · perfect | Kotick | month | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past | the big seals | year | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | keep | past | seal's sea swimming trips | seal | perfect condition | best of all obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in condition=Location | ||
| 5 | not fight | past · perfect | Kotick | before property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | trip | seal | nom trip «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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