The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 15

Limmershin gave a long list of them, for he said that Kotick spent five seasons exploring, with a four months’ rest each year at Novastoshnah, when the holluschickie used to make fun of him and his imaginary islands.

Who acts: Limmershin, Kotick · What happens: give, say, spend, explore, rest, use · To what, where: long list, Novastoshnah, holluschickie, fun, cliffs · 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, 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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 list	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 list	amod
5	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 list	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 said	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 spent	mark
13	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 spent	nsubj
14	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 seasons	nummod
16	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spent	obj
17	exploring	explore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 spent	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 months	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 months	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 months	det
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 months	nummod
22	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 exploring	conj
23	’	'	SYM	_	24 rest	punct
24	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 exploring	conj
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 year	det
26	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rest	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 Novastoshnah	case
28	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 rest	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 when	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 spent	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 holluschickie	det
32	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 when	nsubj
33	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 holluschickie	acl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 make	mark
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 used	advcl
36	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 make	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fun	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 islands	cc
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 islands	nmod:poss
41	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 islands	amod
42	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 him	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	past	Limmershin	a long list of cliffs			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Limmershin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	spend	past	Kotick			season	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	explore	gerund	Kotick not said here				vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent
5	rest	infinitive	Kotick not said here		Novastoshnah	year	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at novastoshnah=Location
6	use	participle		the holluschickie not said here			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	make	to-infinitive		fun of Kotick			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
8	list			cliffs = cliff			nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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