The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 17
But everywhere the People of the Sea told him the same things.
Who acts: People · What happens: tell · To what, where: same things, Kotick · 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 (People), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 2 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 told | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 People | det |
| 4 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 told | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sea | det |
| 7 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 People | nmod |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 things | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 told | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the People of the Sea | the same things | Kotick | everywhere property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thing=Topic |
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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