The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 19

Even when he swam thousands of miles out of the Pacific and got to a place called Cape Corrientes (that was when he was coming back from Gough’s Island), he found a few hundred mangy seals on a rock and they told him that men came there too.

Who acts: seal, that, thousands, men · What happens: swim, get, call, come back, find, tell · To what, where: thousands, Pacific, place, Island, few hundred mangy seals, rock · 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 (seal, that, thousands, men), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	4 swam	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 swam	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swam	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 miles	case
7	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thousands	nmod
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 Pacific	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Pacific	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Pacific	det
11	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 swam	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 got	cc
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 place	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 place	det
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obl
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 place	acl
18	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 called	xcomp
19	Corrientes	Corrientes	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Cape	flat
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 coming	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 coming	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 coming	aux
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 coming	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 coming	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 coming	aux
26	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 got	advcl
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 coming	advmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 Island	case
29	Gough	Gough	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Island	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Gough	case
31	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 coming	obl
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 coming	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 found	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 found	nsubj
35	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 seals	det
37	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 seals	amod
38	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 seals	nummod
39	mangy	mangy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 seals	amod
40	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 found	obj
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 rock	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 rock	det
43	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 seals	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 told	cc
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 told	nsubj
46	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 found	conj
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 told	iobj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 came	mark
49	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 came	nsubj
50	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 told	advcl
51	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 came	advmod
52	too	too	ADV	_	50 came	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	past	seal	thousands of miles		the Pacific		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Trajectory
2	get	past	seal not said here				to a place result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
3	call	participle		a place not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come back	past · progressive	that			Gough's Island		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from island=Initial_Location
5	find	past	seal	a few hundred mangy seals		a rock		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Topic
6	tell speech: assert	past	thousands = thousand		seal			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	come	past	men			there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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