The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 17

A week later he and his army (nearly ten thousand holluschickie and old seals) went away north to the Sea Cow’s tunnel, Kotick leading them, and the seals that stayed at Novastoshnah called them idiots.

Who acts: Kotick, tunnel, seals · What happens: go away, lead, stay, call · To what, where: tunnel, holluschickie, Novastoshnah · Speech: someone speaks here

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, tunnel, seals), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 went	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 army	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 army	nmod:poss
7	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 he	conj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 holluschickie	punct
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	11 thousand	advmod
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 thousand	compound
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 holluschickie	nummod
12	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 army	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seals	cc
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seals	amod
15	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 holluschickie	conj
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 holluschickie	punct
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	north	north	ADV	_	25 tunnel	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	25 tunnel	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Cow	det
22	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Cow	compound
23	Cow	Cow	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 tunnel	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Cow	case
25	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Kotick	punct
27	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 tunnel	appos
28	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 tunnel	acl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 leading	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 called	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 called	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 seals	det
33	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 called	nsubj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 stayed	nsubj
35	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seals	acl:relcl
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 Novastoshnah	case
37	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 stayed	obl
38	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 called	obj
40	idiots	idiot	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 called	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go away	past	Kotick		the Sea Cow's tunnel	away, late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tunnel=Initial_Location
2	lead	gerund	the Sea Cow's tunnel not said here	holluschickie			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	stay	past	the seals		Novastoshnah		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at novastoshnah=Location
4	call	past	the seals	holluschickie			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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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