The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 82

He was six days going home, though he was not swimming slowly; and when he hauled out just above Sea Lion’s Neck the first person he met was the seal who had been waiting for him, and she saw by the look in his eyes that he had found his island at last.

Who acts: sea, six days, first person, seal, person · What happens: be, go, not swim, haul out, meet, wait · To what, where: six days, first person, seal, Neck, island, last

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, six days, first person, seal), 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	4 days	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 days	cop
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 days	acl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 swimming	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 swimming	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swimming	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 swimming	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 swimming	advmod
12	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 going	advcl
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 swimming	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 hauled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hauled	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 hauled	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hauled	nsubj
18	hauled	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 days	parataxis
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 hauled	compound:prt
20	just	just	ADV	_	33 seal	advmod
21	above	above	ADP	_	25 Neck	case
22	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Lion	compound
23	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Neck	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Lion	case
25	Neck	Neck	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 seal	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 person	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 person	amod
28	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seal	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 met	nsubj
30	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 person	acl:relcl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seal	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 seal	det
33	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hauled	obl
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 waiting	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 waiting	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 waiting	aux
37	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 seal	acl:relcl
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 waiting	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 saw	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 saw	cc
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 saw	nsubj
43	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hauled	conj
44	by	by	ADP	_	46 look	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 look	det
46	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 saw	obl
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 eyes	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 eyes	nmod:poss
49	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 look	nmod
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 found	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 found	nsubj
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 found	aux
53	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 saw	advcl
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 island	nmod:poss
55	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 found	obj
56	at	at	ADP	_	57 last	case
57	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 found	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	sea	six days			tree rules
2	go	gerund	six days not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not swim	past · progressive	sea			slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	haul out	past	sea				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	meet	past	sea	the first person not said here			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent
6	is a	past	the first person	the seal	Sea Lion's Neck		tree rules
7	wait	past · perfect · progressive	the seal			for sea	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see	past	person			by the look in sea's eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	find	past · perfect	sea	sea's island	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent island=Theme at last=Asset

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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