The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 43

When they began feeding again Kotick saw that their upper lip was split into two pieces that they could twitch apart about a foot and bring together again with a whole bushel of seaweed between the splits.

Who acts: flippers, Kotick, seaweed · What happens: begin, feed, see, split, twitch, bring together · To what, where: upper lip, two pieces · 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 (flippers, Kotick, seaweed), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	parataxis
4	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 feeding	advmod
6	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 split	mark
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lip	nmod:poss
10	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lip	amod
11	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 split	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 split	aux:pass
13	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 twitch	advcl
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 pieces	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 pieces	nummod
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 split	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 twitch	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 twitch	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 twitch	aux
20	twitch	twitch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 saw	ccomp
21	apart	apart	ADV	_	20 twitch	advmod
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 foot	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 foot	det
24	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 twitch	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bring	cc
26	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 twitch	conj
27	together	together	ADV	_	26 bring	advmod
28	again	again	ADV	_	26 bring	advmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 bushel	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bushel	det
31	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bushel	amod
32	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bring	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 seaweed	case
34	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bushel	nmod
35	between	between	ADP	_	37 splits	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 splits	det
37	splits	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 seaweed	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	flippers = flipper				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	feed	gerund	flippers = flipper not said here		again		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	Kotick				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	split	past · passive		flippers's upper lip		into two pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into piece=Result
5	twitch	could	flippers = flipper			about a foot; apart property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bring together	infinitive	flippers = flipper not said here		again	with a whole bushel of seaweed; together property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
7	split	present	seaweed not said here				vn break-45.1 «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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