The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 7
He was going to find Sea Cow, if there was such a person in the sea, and he was going to find a quiet island with good firm beaches for seals to live on, where men could not get at them.
Who acts: Kotick, person, men · What happens: go, find, be, live, not get · To what, where: Sea Cow, quiet island
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, person, men), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Cow | compound |
| 7 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 was | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | conj |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 person | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 person | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 going | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 going | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 going | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 going | aux |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 going | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 going | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 island | det |
| 26 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 island | amod |
| 27 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 beaches | case |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 beaches | amod |
| 30 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 beaches | compound |
| 31 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 find | obl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 seals | case |
| 33 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 beaches | nmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 live | mark |
| 35 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 seals | acl |
| 36 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 42 get | mark |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 get | punct |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 get | advmod |
| 39 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 get | nsubj |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 get | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 get | advmod |
| 42 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 live | advcl |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 get | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | Kotick | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Kotick not said here | Sea Cow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | such person in the sea | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | Kotick | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | Kotick not said here | a quiet island | with good firm beaches for seals | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic | |||
| 6 | live | to-infinitive | Kotick not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not get | could | men | at adventures = adventure | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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