The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 81

The result was that he shot up straight into the air for four or five feet, landing almost where he left ground.

Who acts: thing · What happens: be, land, leave · To what, where: air, ground

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 (thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 result	det
2	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shot	obl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shot	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 shot	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shot	nsubj
6	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 shot	compound:prt
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 air	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 air	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shot	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	16 feet	case
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 feet	nummod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 five	cc
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 four	conj
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shot	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 landing	punct
18	landing	land	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 shot	advcl
19	almost	almost	ADV	_	20 where	advmod
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 left	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 left	nsubj
22	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 landing	advcl
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 left	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	thing		the air	for four feet; the result obl; shoot property	tree rules
2	land	gerund	thing not said here				vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	past	thing	ground			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=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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