The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 24
He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily.
Who acts: Tabaqui · What happens: scuttle, find, sit, crack · To what, where: back, bone, end
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 (Tabaqui), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 scuttled | nsubj |
| 2 | scuttled | scuttle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 back | det |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scuttled | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 found | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cave | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bone | det |
| 14 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 buck | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 buck | det |
| 17 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bone | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 meat | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 meat | det |
| 20 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 buck | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 meat | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sat | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sat | cc |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 scuttled | conj |
| 26 | cracking | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 sat | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cracking | obj |
| 29 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 26 cracking | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scuttled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scuttle | past | Tabaqui | the back of the cave | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to back=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Tabaqui | the bone of a buck with some meat on bone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | Tabaqui not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | crack | gerund | Tabaqui not said here | the end | merrily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location end=Theme |
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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