The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 83

But the holluschickie and Sea Catch, his father, and all the other seals laughed at him when he told them what he had discovered, and a young seal about his own age said, “This is all very well, Kotick, but you can’t come from no one knows where and order us off like this.

Who acts: other seals, seal, young seal, This, lion · What happens: laugh, tell, discover, say, be, not come · To what, where: lion, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (other seals, seal, young seal, This), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 holluschickie	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 holluschickie	det
3	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Sea	cc
5	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 holluschickie	conj
6	Catch	Catch	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sea	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 father	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holluschickie	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laughed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 laughed	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 seals	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 seals	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seals	amod
15	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 laughed	nsubj
16	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 father	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laughed	obl
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 told	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 laughed	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 told	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 discovered	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 discovered	aux
26	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 what	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 said	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 seal	det
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 seal	amod
31	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 said	nsubj
32	about	about	ADP	_	35 age	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 age	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 age	amod
35	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seal	nmod
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 told	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Kotick	punct
38	“	"	PUNCT	_	43 well	punct
39	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 well	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 well	cop
41	all	all	ADV	_	43 well	advmod
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 well	advmod
43	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 Kotick	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Kotick	punct
45	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 said	ccomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 come	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 come	cc
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 come	nsubj
49	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 come	aux
50	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 come	advmod
51	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 told	conj
52	from	from	ADP	_	54 one	case
53	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	54 one	det
54	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 knows	obl
55	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 come	advcl
56	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	58 order	advmod
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 order	cc
58	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 knows	ccomp
59	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 order	obj
60	off	off	ADP	_	58 order	compound:prt
61	like	like	ADP	_	62 this	case
62	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	58 order	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 holluschickie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	all other seals		at sea	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	seal	lion		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient what=Topic
3	discover	past · perfect	seal			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	a young seal about sea's own age			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	This		all, well property	tree rules
6	not come in a quote	can	lion			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	know in a quote	present	lion not said here		from no one	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	order off in a quote	infinitive		us	like this	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme

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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