The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 15
He was not a white seal any more, but red from head to tail.
Who acts: Kotick · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: white seal, head
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seal | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seal | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 seal | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 seal | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seal | amod |
| 6 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 seal | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 red | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 red | cc |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seal | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 red | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 tail | case |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 red | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Kotick | a white seal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Kotick not said here | head | to tail | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/15/