The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 22

Petersen Sahib had spent eighteen years in catching elephants, and he had only once before found such a dance-place.

Who acts: Petersen · What happens: spend, catch, have, find · To what, where: elephants, dance place

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petersen), 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	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spent	nsubj
2	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Petersen	flat
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spent	aux
4	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spent	obj
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 catching	mark
8	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spent	advcl
9	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 catching	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spent	parataxis
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 once	advmod
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 had	obl
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 found	mark
17	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 had	advcl
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 place	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 place	det
20	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 place	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 dance	punct
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	spend	past · perfect	Petersen		year	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	catch	gerund	Petersen not said here	elephants		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme
3	have	past	Petersen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	find	participle	Petersen not said here	such dance place		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic

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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