The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 21

This is the great deep-sea song that all the St. Paul seals sing when they are heading back to their beaches in the summer.

Who acts: This, Paul seals, men · What happens: be, sing, head back · To what, where: great sea song

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 (This, Paul seals, men), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 song	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 song	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 song	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 song	amod
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 deep	punct
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 song	compound
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sing	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 seals	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 seals	det
12	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Paul	nmod:desc
13	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 seals	compound
14	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sing	nsubj
15	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 song	acl:relcl
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 heading	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heading	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 heading	aux
19	heading	head	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 sing	advcl
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 heading	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 beaches	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 beaches	nmod:poss
23	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 heading	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 summer	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 summer	det
26	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heading	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 song	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	the great sea song			tree rules
2	sing speech: express	present	all Paul seals	the great sea song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme
3	head back	present · progressive	men = man		summer	to men's beaches	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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