The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 16

He went to the Gallapagos, a horrid dry place on the Equator, where he was nearly baked to death; he went to the Georgia Islands, the Orkneys, Emerald Island, Little Nightingale Island, Gough’s Island, Bouvet’s Island, the Crossets, and even to a little speck of an island south of the Cape of Good Hope.

Who acts: Kotick · What happens: go, bake · To what, where: Gallapagos, Kotick, Orkneys, Georgia Islands

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Gallapagos	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Gallapagos	det
5	Gallapagos	Gallapagos	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 place	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 place	det
8	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 place	amod
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 place	amod
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Gallapagos	appos
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 Equator	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Equator	det
13	Equator	Equator	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 place	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 baked	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 baked	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 baked	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 baked	aux:pass
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	19 baked	advmod
19	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 place	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 death	case
21	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 baked	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 Islands	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Islands	det
27	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Islands	compound
28	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 went	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Orkneys	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Orkneys	det
31	Orkneys	orkney	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 went	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Island	punct
33	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Island	compound
34	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Orkneys	appos
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Nightingale	punct
36	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Nightingale	amod
37	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Orkneys	nmod
38	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Nightingale	flat
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Island	punct
40	Gough	Gough	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Island	nmod:poss
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 Gough	case
42	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Nightingale	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Island	punct
44	Bouvet	Bouvet	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Island	nmod:poss
45	’s	's	PART	_	44 Bouvet	case
46	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Nightingale	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Crossets	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Crossets	det
49	Crossets	Crosset	PROPN	Number=Plur	37 Nightingale	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 speck	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 speck	cc
52	even	even	ADV	_	56 speck	advmod
53	to	to	ADP	_	56 speck	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 speck	det
55	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 speck	amod
56	speck	speck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 island	case
58	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 island	det
59	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 speck	nmod
60	south	south	ADV	_	59 island	advmod
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 Cape	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 Cape	det
63	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 island	nmod
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 Hope	case
65	Good	Good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 Hope	amod
66	Hope	Hope	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 Cape	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Kotick		the Gallapagos	to a little speck of a island of the Cape of Good Hope	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to gallapagos=Initial_Location to speck=Destination
2	bake	past · passive		Kotick		to death result; nearly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to death=Result
3	go	past	Kotick	the Orkneys Little Nightingale and Gough's Island and Bouvet's Island and the Crossets	the Georgia Islands		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location

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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