The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 68
It was a long, long swim, and Kotick badly wanted fresh air before he was out of the dark tunnel they led him through.
Who acts: water, Kotick, miles · What happens: be, want, lead · To what, where: long long swim, fresh air, dark tunnel, 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 (water, Kotick, miles), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 swim | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 swim | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 swim | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 swim | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 swim | amod |
| 7 | swim | swim | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wanted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wanted | cc |
| 10 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wanted | nsubj |
| 11 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 wanted | advmod |
| 12 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 swim | advcl |
| 13 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 air | amod |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wanted | obj |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 tunnel | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tunnel | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tunnel | cop |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 tunnel | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tunnel | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tunnel | det |
| 21 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tunnel | amod |
| 22 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wanted | xcomp |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 led | nsubj |
| 24 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tunnel | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 led | obj |
| 26 | through | through | ADV | _ | 24 led | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | water | a long long swim | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Kotick | fresh air | badly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=Theme | |||
| 3 | is not said to happen | past | Kotick | the dark tunnel | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | miles = mile | Kotick | through property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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