The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 29

“Remember, Mother, it is always the seventh wave that goes farthest up the beach.”

Who acts: you, story, seventh wave · What happens: remember, be, go up · To what, where: Mother, seventh wave, beach

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 (you, story, seventh wave), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Remember	punct
2	Remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Mother	punct
4	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Remember	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wave	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wave	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wave	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 wave	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wave	det
10	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wave	amod
11	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Remember	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 goes	nsubj
13	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wave	acl:relcl
14	farthest	far	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 goes	advmod
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 goes	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beach	det
17	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 goes	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Remember	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Mother		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	story	the seventh wave	always property	tree rules
3	go up in a quote	present	the seventh wave	the beach	far property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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