The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 74
Away to the northward, out to sea, ran a line of bars and shoals and rocks that would never let a ship come within six miles of the beach, and between the islands and the mainland was a stretch of deep water that ran up to the perpendicular cliffs, and somewhere below the cliffs was the mouth of the tunnel.
Who acts: rocks, mainland, deep water · What happens: run, not let, come, be, run up · To what, where: line, sea, rocks, stretch, mouth
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 (rocks, mainland, deep water), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 10 ran | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 4 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 8 sea | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sea | punct |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 sea | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sea | punct |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 line | det |
| 12 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bars | case |
| 14 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 line | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shoals | cc |
| 16 | shoals | shoal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bars | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rocks | cc |
| 18 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bars | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 let | obj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 let | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 let | advmod |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ship | det |
| 24 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 let | obj |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 26 | within | within | ADP | _ | 28 miles | case |
| 27 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 miles | nummod |
| 28 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 come | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 beach | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 beach | det |
| 31 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 miles | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 islands | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 islands | cc |
| 34 | between | between | ADP | _ | 36 islands | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 islands | det |
| 36 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ran | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 stretch | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 mainland | det |
| 39 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 stretch | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 stretch | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 stretch | det |
| 42 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 islands | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 water | case |
| 44 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 water | amod |
| 45 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 stretch | nmod |
| 46 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 ran | nsubj |
| 47 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 water | acl:relcl |
| 48 | up | up | ADP | _ | 47 ran | compound:prt |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 cliffs | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 cliffs | det |
| 51 | perpendicular | perpendicular | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 cliffs | compound |
| 52 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 ran | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 mouth | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 mouth | cc |
| 55 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 61 mouth | advmod |
| 56 | below | below | ADP | _ | 58 cliffs | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 cliffs | det |
| 58 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 somewhere | obl |
| 59 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 61 mouth | cop |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 mouth | det |
| 61 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 islands | conj |
| 62 | of | of | ADP | _ | 64 tunnel | case |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 tunnel | det |
| 64 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 mouth | nmod |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | a line of bars and shoals and rocks | the sea | between the islands and a stretch and the mouth; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent line=Theme to sea=Initial_Location between island=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not let | would | rocks | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | rocks not said here | within six miles of the beach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the mainland | a stretch | of deep water | tree rules | |||
| 5 | run up | past | deep water | to the perpendicular cliffs result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cliff=Result | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | the mouth | of the tunnel; somewhere property | tree rules |
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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