The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 98
Then Kotick roared to the seals: “I’ve done my best for you these five seasons past.
Who acts: Kotick, young seal · What happens: roar, do · To what, where: seals, best
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, young 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 roared | advmod |
| 2 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 roared | nsubj |
| 3 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 seals | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 seals | det |
| 6 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roared | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 roared | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 best | nmod:poss |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 done | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 done | obl |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 seasons | det |
| 17 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 seasons | nummod |
| 18 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 past | nsubj |
| 19 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 done | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | past | Kotick | the seals | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to seal=Recipient | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · perfect | the young seal = seal | my best | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=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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