The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 11
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
Who acts: Jungle, Father · What happens: be, wake up, scratch, yawn, spread out, get · To what, where: seven o’clock, rest, Father, paws
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jungle, Father), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 o’clock | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 o’clock | cop |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 o’clock | nummod |
| 4 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 evening | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 evening | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 warm | advmod |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 evening | amod |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 o’clock | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hills | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hills | det |
| 12 | Seeonee | Seeonee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hills | compound |
| 13 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 evening | nmod |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 woke | advmod |
| 15 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 woke | nsubj |
| 16 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Father | flat |
| 17 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 o’clock | acl:relcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 woke | compound:prt |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 rest | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 day | nmod:poss |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rest | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 day | case |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 woke | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 scratched | punct |
| 25 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 woke | conj |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 scratched | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 yawned | punct |
| 28 | yawned | yawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 woke | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 spread | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 spread | cc |
| 31 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 yawned | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 spread | compound:prt |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 paws | nmod:poss |
| 34 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 spread | obl |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 paws | flat |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 other | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 other | det |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 one | nmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 get | mark |
| 40 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 spread | advcl |
| 41 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 get | xcomp |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 feeling | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 feeling | det |
| 44 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 feeling | amod |
| 45 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rid | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 tips | case |
| 47 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 tips | nmod:poss |
| 48 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 feeling | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 o’clock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Jungle | seven o’clock | evening | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wake up | past | Father | Father's day's rest | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | scratch | past | Father not said here | Father | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | yawn | past | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | spread out | past | Father's paws | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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