The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 59

Then the Sea Cow began to travel northward very slowly, stopping to hold absurd bowing councils from time to time, and Kotick followed them, saying to himself, “People who are such idiots as these are would have been killed long ago if they hadn’t found out some safe island.

Who acts: Sea Cow, Kotick, People · What happens: begin, travel, stop, hold, bow, follow · To what, where: absurd bowing councils, councils, Kotick, such idiots, safe island · 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 (Sea Cow, Kotick, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cow	det
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Cow	compound
4	Cow	Cow	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 travel	mark
7	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	northward	northward	ADV	_	7 travel	advmod
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 slowly	advmod
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 travel	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stopping	punct
12	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 began	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hold	mark
14	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stopping	xcomp
15	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 councils	amod
16	bowing	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 councils	amod
17	councils	council	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hold	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 time	case
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 time	case
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 followed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 followed	cc
24	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 followed	nsubj
25	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 followed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saying	punct
28	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 began	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 himself	case
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 saying	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 idiots	punct
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 idiots	punct
33	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 idiots	nsubj
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 idiots	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 idiots	cop
36	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 idiots	amod
37	idiots	idiot	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 killed	obl
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 these	case
39	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 idiots	nmod
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 killed	aux:pass
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 killed	aux
42	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 killed	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 killed	aux:pass
44	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 saying	ccomp
45	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 ago	advmod
46	ago	ago	ADV	_	44 killed	advmod
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 found	mark
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 found	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 found	aux
50	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 found	advmod
51	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 killed	advcl
52	out	out	ADP	_	51 found	compound:prt
53	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	55 island	det
54	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 island	amod
55	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 found	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Sea Cow			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	travel	to-infinitive	the Sea Cow not said here				northward, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	gerund	the Sea Cow not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	hold	to-infinitive	the Sea Cow not said here	absurd bowing councils		time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme
5	bow	gerund						vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	follow	past	Kotick	councils = council				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	say speech: assert	gerund	the Sea Cow not said here		Kotick			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
8	is a in a quote	present	People	such idiots			as these	tree rules
9	kill in a quote	would · present · perfect · passive					ago property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
10	not find out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	People	some safe island				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic

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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