The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 18

But next spring, when they all met off the fishing banks of the Pacific, Kotick’s seals told such tales of the new beaches beyond Sea Cow’s tunnel that more and more seals left Novastoshnah.

Who acts: holluschickie, seals, more seals, new beaches · What happens: meet, tell, leave · To what, where: such tales, tunnel · 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 (holluschickie, seals, more seals, new beaches), 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	_	8 met	cc
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spring	amod
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 met	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 met	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 they	det
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	12 banks	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 banks	det
11	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 banks	compound
12	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 met	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Pacific	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Pacific	det
15	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 banks	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
17	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 seals	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Kotick	case
19	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 met	conj
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tales	amod
22	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 told	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 beaches	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 beaches	det
25	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 beaches	amod
26	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tales	nmod
27	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	31 tunnel	case
28	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Cow	compound
29	Cow	Cow	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 tunnel	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Cow	case
31	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 beaches	nmod
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 left	obj
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 seals	amod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 more	cc
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 more	conj
36	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 left	nsubj
37	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tunnel	acl:relcl
38	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 left	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	holluschickie		spring	off the fishing banks of the Pacific	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	Kotick's seals	such tales of the new beaches beyond Sea Cow's tunnel			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
3	leave	past	more seals	Sea Cow's tunnel			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme novastoshnah=Attribute
4	tell		the new beaches beyond Sea Cow's tunnel				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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