The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 96
He had no time to change his mind, for Kotick’s head was out and his teeth sunk in the blubber of the young seal’s neck.
Who acts: seal, head · What happens: have, change, be, sink, mind · To what, where: mind, teeth, blubber
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 (seal, head), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 change | mark |
| 6 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 change | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 out | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 out | mark |
| 11 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Kotick | case |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 out | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 out | cop |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 had | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 teeth | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 out | conj |
| 19 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 teeth | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 blubber | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 blubber | det |
| 22 | blubber | blubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sunk | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 neck | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 seal | det |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 seal | amod |
| 26 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 neck | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 seal | case |
| 28 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blubber | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | seal | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | change | to-infinitive | seal not said here | seal's mind | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Kotick's head | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sink | participle | seal's teeth not said here | the blubber of the young seal's neck | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | mind | seal | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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