The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 63

The herd never went more than forty or fifty miles a day, and stopped to feed at night, and kept close to the shore all the time; while Kotick swam round them, and over them, and under them, but he could not hurry them up one-half mile.

Who acts: herd, Kotick · What happens: not go, stop, feed, keep, swim, not hurry up · To what, where: forty miles, miles

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 (herd, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 herd	det
2	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	7 forty	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 more	fixed
7	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 miles	nummod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 fifty	cc
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 forty	conj
10	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 miles	nmod:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stopped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stopped	cc
15	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 feed	mark
17	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stopped	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 night	case
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kept	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 kept	cc
22	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
23	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 kept	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 shore	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 shore	det
26	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 close	obl
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 time	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kept	obl:unmarked
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 swam	punct
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 swam	mark
32	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 swam	nsubj
33	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
34	round	round	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 swam	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 them	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 them	cc
38	over	over	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 swam	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 them	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 them	cc
42	under	under	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 swam	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 hurry	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 hurry	cc
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 hurry	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 hurry	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 hurry	advmod
49	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	parataxis
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 hurry	obj
51	up	up	ADP	_	49 hurry	compound:prt
52	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 half	nummod
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 one	punct
54	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	55 mile	compound
55	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 hurry	parataxis
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past	the herd	forty miles a day			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	past	the herd not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	feed	to-infinitive	the herd not said here		night		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	keep	past	the herd not said here		time	close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	swim	past	Kotick			round miles = mile	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory
6	not hurry up	could	Kotick	miles = mile			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Agent

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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