The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 19

Of course it was not all done at once, for the seals are not very clever, and they need a long time to turn things over in their minds, but year after year more seals went away from Novastoshnah, and Lukannon, and the other nurseries, to the quiet, sheltered beaches where Kotick sits all the summer through, getting bigger and fatter and stronger each year, while the holluschickie play around him, in that sea where no man comes.

Who acts: seals, holluschickie, year more seals, other nurseries, Kotick, man · What happens: not do, not be, need, turn over, go, shelter · To what, where: course, things, minds, beaches

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 (seals, holluschickie, year more seals, other nurseries), 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	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	7 done	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 done	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 done	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 done	advmod
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 done	advmod
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 done	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 clever	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 clever	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 seals	det
13	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 clever	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 clever	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 clever	advmod
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 clever	advmod
17	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 done	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 need	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 need	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 need	nsubj
21	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 clever	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 time	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 time	amod
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 need	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 turn	mark
26	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 need	advcl
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 turn	obj
28	over	over	ADV	_	26 turn	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 minds	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 minds	nmod:poss
31	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 turn	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
34	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seals	compound
35	after	after	ADP	_	36 year	case
36	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 year	nmod
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 seals	amod
38	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 went	nsubj
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 done	parataxis
40	away	away	ADV	_	39 went	advmod
41	from	from	ADP	_	42 Novastoshnah	case
42	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 away	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Lukannon	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 Lukannon	cc
45	Lukannon	Lukannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 done	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 sheltered	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 sheltered	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 nurseries	det
49	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 nurseries	amod
50	nurseries	nursery	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 sheltered	nsubj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 quiet	punct
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 quiet	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 quiet	det
54	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 nurseries	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 nurseries	punct
56	sheltered	shelter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 done	advcl
57	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 sheltered	obj
58	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	60 sits	advmod
59	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 sits	nsubj
60	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 beaches	acl:relcl
61	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	63 summer	det:predet
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 summer	det
63	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 sits	obj
64	through	through	ADV	_	60 sits	advmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 getting	punct
66	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	60 sits	advcl
67	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	66 getting	xcomp
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 fatter	cc
69	fatter	fat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	67 bigger	conj
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 stronger	cc
71	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	67 bigger	conj
72	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	73 year	det
73	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 stronger	obl:unmarked
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 play	punct
75	while	while	SCONJ	_	78 play	mark
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	78 play	det
77	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 play	compound
78	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sheltered	obl
79	around	around	ADP	_	80 him	case
80	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	78 play	nmod
81	,	,	PUNCT	_	84 sea	punct
82	in	in	ADP	_	84 sea	case
83	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	84 sea	det
84	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sheltered	parataxis
85	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	88 comes	advmod
86	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	87 man	det
87	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	88 comes	nsubj
88	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	84 sea	acl:relcl
89	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past · passive		course			Lukannon obl; all property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	not is	present	the seals				clever property	tree rules
3	need	present	holluschickie			time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	turn over	to-infinitive	holluschickie not said here	things	holluschickie's minds		over property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
5	go	past	year more seals				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shelter	past	the other nurseries and the quiet	beaches			the holluschickie play around Kotick obl	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Patient
7	sit	present	Kotick			summer	through property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	get	gerund	Kotick not said here				big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	come	present	no man					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	mind		holluschickie					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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