The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 8
So he explored and explored by himself from the North to the South Pacific, swimming as much as three hundred miles in a day and a night.
Who acts: Kotick · What happens: explore, swim · To what, where: North, much
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 explored | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 explored | nsubj |
| 3 | explored | explore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 explored | cc |
| 5 | explored | explore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 explored | conj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 explored | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 North | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 North | det |
| 10 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 explored | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Pacific | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Pacific | det |
| 13 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Pacific | compound |
| 14 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 explored | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swimming | punct |
| 16 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 explored | advcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 swimming | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 miles | case |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hundred | compound |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 miles | nummod |
| 22 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 much | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swimming | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 night | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 night | det |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 day | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 explored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explore | past | Kotick | the North | to the South Pacific | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | explore | participle | Kotick not said here | by Kotick | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | swim | gerund | Kotick not said here | much | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Trajectory |
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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