The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 11

Or else he could see that seals had once visited the island and been killed off, and Kotick knew that where men had come once they would come again.

Who acts: Kotick, men · What happens: see, visit, kill off, know, come · To what, where: seals · 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 (Kotick, men), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	5 see	cc
2	else	else	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 visited	mark
7	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 visited	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 visited	aux
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 visited	advmod
10	visited	visit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 see	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 island	det
12	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 visited	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 killed	cc
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 killed	aux:pass
15	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 visited	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 killed	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 knew	cc
19	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 knew	nsubj
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 visited	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 come	mark
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 come	advmod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 come	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 come	advcl
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 come	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 come	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 knew	ccomp
30	again	again	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	Kotick			else property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	visit	past · perfect · passive		seals		once property	tree rules
3	kill off	participle · passive					vn murder-42.1-1 «NP.instrument V NP»
4	know	past	Kotick				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come	past · perfect	men			once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	would	men = man		again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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