The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 54

The sea cows went on schlooping and grazing and chumping in the weed, and Kotick asked them questions in every language that he had picked up in his travels; and the Sea People talk nearly as many languages as human beings.

Who acts: sea cows, Kotick, language, Sea People · What happens: go, chump, ask, pick up, travel, talk · To what, where: schlooping, weed, questions, weeds, language, Kotick

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 (sea cows, Kotick, language, Sea People), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cows	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cows	compound
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 schlooping	case
6	schlooping	schlooping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grazing	cc
8	grazing	grazing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 schlooping	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chumping	cc
10	chumping	chump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 schlooping	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 weed	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 weed	det
13	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chumping	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asked	cc
16	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	obj
19	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 asked	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 language	case
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 language	det
22	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 picked	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 picked	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 picked	aux
26	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 language	acl:relcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 picked	compound:prt
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	30 travels	mark
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 travels	nmod:poss
30	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 picked	advcl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 talk	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 talk	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 People	det
34	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 People	compound
35	People	People	PROPN	Number=Plur	36 talk	nsubj
36	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
37	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	39 many	advmod
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 many	advmod
39	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 languages	amod
40	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 talk	obj
41	as	as	ADP	_	43 beings	case
42	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 beings	amod
43	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 talk	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the sea cows			schlooping and grazing		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on schlooping=Location
2	chump	gerund	the sea cows not said here			the weed		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	Kotick	questions	weeds = weed	every language		tree rules
4	pick up	past · perfect · passive	every language not said here	Kotick				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	travel	present	every language not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	talk	present	the Sea People	many languages			as human beings	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent language=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/54/