The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 13
Yet as he pulled out against the gale he could see that even there had once been a seal nursery.
Who acts: Kotick · What happens: pull out, see, have, be · To what, where: seal nursery
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), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 pulled | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 pulled | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pulled | nsubj |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 pulled | compound:prt |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 gale | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gale | det |
| 8 | gale | gale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pulled | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 there | mark |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 there | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 see | ccomp |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 there | parataxis |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 nursery | advmod |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 nursery | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 nursery | det |
| 19 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nursery | compound |
| 20 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | past | Kotick | against the gale | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | could | Kotick | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | have | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | participle | a seal nursery | once property | tree rules |
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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