The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 32

He chased them till he was tired, and then he curled himself up and went to sleep on the hollows of the ground swell that sets in to Copper Island.

Who acts: seal, ground swell · What happens: chase, be, curl up, go, sleep, set in · To what, where: pounds, seal, hollows, Copper Island

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, ground swell), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	obj
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 tired	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tired	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	cop
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chased	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 curled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 curled	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 curled	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 curled	nsubj
12	curled	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chased	parataxis
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 curled	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 curled	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 curled	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sleep	mark
18	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 went	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 hollows	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hollows	det
21	hollows	hollow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sleep	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 swell	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 swell	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 swell	compound
25	swell	swell	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hollows	nmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 sets	nsubj
27	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 swell	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	27 sets	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 Island	case
30	Copper	Copper	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Island	compound
31	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sets	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 chased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	seal	pounds = pound					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	past	seal					tired property	tree rules
3	curl up	past	seal	seal			then		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	go	past	seal not said here						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sleep	to-infinitive	seal not said here			the hollows of the ground swell			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	set in	present	the ground swell		Copper Island				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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