The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 31

This time he went westward, because he had fallen on the trail of a great shoal of halibut, and he needed at least one hundred pounds of fish a day to keep him in good condition.

Who acts: seal · What happens: go, fall, need, keep · To what, where: trail, hundred pounds, seal, good condition

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), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	westward	westward	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fallen	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 fallen	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fallen	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fallen	aux
10	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 went	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 trail	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trail	det
13	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fallen	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 shoal	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 shoal	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 shoal	amod
17	shoal	shoal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trail	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 halibut	case
19	halibut	halibut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shoal	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 needed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 needed	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 needed	nsubj
23	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 least	case
25	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 one	nmod
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 hundred	compound
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 pounds	nummod
28	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 needed	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 fish	case
30	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pounds	nmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 needed	obl:unmarked
33	to	to	PART	_	34 keep	mark
34	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 needed	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 keep	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 condition	case
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 condition	amod
38	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 keep	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	seal			time	westward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past · perfect	seal		the trail of a great shoal of halibut			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trail=Location
3	need	past	seal	hundred pounds of fish		day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pound=Theme
4	keep	to-infinitive	seal not said here	seal	good condition			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in condition=Location

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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