The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 20
That nearly broke his heart, and he headed round the Horn back to his own beaches; and on his way north he hauled out on an island full of green trees, where he found an old, old seal who was dying, and Kotick caught fish for him and told him all his sorrows.
Who acts: That, seal, old old seal, Kotick · What happens: break, head, haul out, find, die, catch · To what, where: heart, way, old old seal, fish, sorrows · 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 (That, seal, old old seal, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 3 broke | advmod |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 headed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 headed | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 headed | nsubj |
| 9 | headed | head | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 broke | conj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 Horn | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Horn | det |
| 12 | Horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 headed | obl |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 headed | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 beaches | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 beaches | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beaches | amod |
| 17 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 back | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 hauled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hauled | cc |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hauled | obl |
| 23 | north | north | ADV | _ | 25 hauled | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hauled | nsubj |
| 25 | hauled | haul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 broke | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 hauled | compound:prt |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 island | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 island | det |
| 29 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hauled | obl |
| 30 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 island | amod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 trees | case |
| 32 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 trees | amod |
| 33 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 full | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 found | punct |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 found | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 found | nsubj |
| 37 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 trees | acl:relcl |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 seal | det |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 seal | amod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 old | punct |
| 41 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 seal | amod |
| 42 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 found | obj |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 dying | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 dying | aux |
| 45 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 seal | acl:relcl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 caught | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 caught | cc |
| 48 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 caught | nsubj |
| 49 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hauled | parataxis |
| 50 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 caught | obj |
| 51 | for | for | ADP | _ | 52 him | case |
| 52 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 caught | obl |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 told | cc |
| 54 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 caught | conj |
| 55 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 told | iobj |
| 56 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 58 sorrows | det:predet |
| 57 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 sorrows | nmod:poss |
| 58 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 told | iobj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | That | seal's heart | nearly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient | |||
| 2 | head | past | seal | round the Horn | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | haul out | past | seal | seal's way | on a island; north property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | find | past | seal | a old old seal | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Topic | ||||
| 5 | die | past · progressive | a old old seal | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | catch | past | Kotick | fish | for seal | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fish=Theme for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | past | Kotick not said here | seal's sorrows | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sorrow=Topic | ||||
| 8 | sorrow | seal | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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