The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 18

Seals had come to those islands once upon a time, but men had killed them all off.

Who acts: Seals · What happens: come, kill · To what, where: islands, men

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 (Seals), 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	Seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 islands	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 islands	det
6	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	obl
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 come	advmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 once	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 killed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 killed	cc
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 killed	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 killed	aux
15	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 come	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 killed	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 killed	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 all	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	Seals			that islands		once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location
2	kill	past · perfect · passive		men					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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