The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 37
They were like no walrus, sea lion, seal, bear, whale, shark, fish, squid, or scallop that Kotick had ever seen before.
Who acts: People, Kotick · What happens: be, scallop, see
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 (People, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walrus | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walrus | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 walrus | case |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 walrus | det |
| 5 | walrus | walrus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lion | punct |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lion | compound |
| 8 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walrus | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seal | punct |
| 10 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lion | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bear | punct |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lion | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 whale | punct |
| 14 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lion | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shark | punct |
| 16 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walrus | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fish | punct |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shark | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 squid | punct |
| 20 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shark | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 scallop | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 scallop | cc |
| 23 | scallop | scallop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 walrus | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 seen | mark |
| 25 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 seen | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 seen | aux |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 seen | advmod |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 scallop | advcl |
| 29 | before | before | ADV | _ | 28 seen | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walrus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | People | like no walrus and shark and fish and squid | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scallop | infinitive | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Kotick | ever | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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