The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 53

Then he remembered in a flash what the Burgomaster gull had screamed to him when he was a little yearling at Walrus Islet, and he tumbled backward in the water, for he knew that he had found Sea Cow at last.

Who acts: Kotick · What happens: remember, scream, be, tumble, know, find · To what, where: flash, Burgomaster gull, Kotick, little yearling, Walrus, Sea · 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 remembered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remembered	nsubj
3	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 flash	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flash	det
6	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remembered	obl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 screamed	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gull	det
9	Burgomaster	Burgomaster	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gull	compound
10	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 screamed	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 screamed	aux
12	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 remembered	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 screamed	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 yearling	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 yearling	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 yearling	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 yearling	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 yearling	amod
20	yearling	yearling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 screamed	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 Walrus	case
22	Walrus	Walrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 yearling	nmod
23	Islet	Islet	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Walrus	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tumbled	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tumbled	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tumbled	nsubj
27	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remembered	parataxis
28	backward	backward	ADV	_	27 tumbled	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 water	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tumbled	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 knew	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 knew	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 knew	nsubj
35	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tumbled	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 found	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 found	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 found	aux
39	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 knew	ccomp
40	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 found	obj
41	Cow	Cow	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Sea	flat
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 last	case
43	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 found	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Kotick			a flash	then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	scream speech: express	past · perfect · passive		the Burgomaster gull	Kotick				tree rules
3	is a	past	Kotick	a little yearling		Walrus			tree rules
4	tumble	past	Kotick					in the water; backward property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in water=Attribute
5	know	past	Kotick						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	find	past · perfect	Kotick	Sea		last			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sea=Theme at last=Asset

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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