The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 79

He began to think of the seal he had left behind him, but though he was in a hurry to go back to Novastoshnah, he thoroughly explored the new country, so that he would be able to answer all questions.

Who acts: sea · What happens: begin, think, leave, be, go back, explore · To what, where: seal, hurry, Novastoshnah, new country, questions

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), 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	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 think	mark
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 seal	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seal	det
7	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 left	aux
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 seal	acl:relcl
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hurry	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 hurry	cc
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 hurry	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hurry	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hurry	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hurry	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hurry	det
20	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 hurry	acl
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Novastoshnah	case
25	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 explored	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 explored	nsubj
28	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	29 explored	advmod
29	explored	explore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 country	det
31	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 country	amod
32	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 explored	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 able	punct
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	39 able	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 able	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 able	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 able	cop
39	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 explored	advcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 answer	mark
41	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 able	xcomp
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 questions	det
43	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 answer	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	sea					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	sea not said here				of the seal	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leave	past · perfect	sea	the seal not said here			behind seal	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent seal=Theme behind he=Location
4	is	past	sea			a hurry		tree rules
5	go back	to-infinitive	sea not said here		Novastoshnah			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to novastoshnah=Result
6	explore	past	sea	the new country			thoroughly property	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent country=Location
7	is	would	sea				able property	tree rules
8	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	sea not said here	all questions				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality

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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