The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 162

When Matkah came back from her deep-sea fishing she would go straight to their playground and call as a sheep calls for a lamb, and wait until she heard Kotick bleat.

Who acts: Matkah, side, sheep · What happens: come back, go, call, wait, hear, fish · To what, where: sea fishing, Kotick bleat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matkah, side, sheep), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	Matkah	Matkah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 go	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	10 fishing	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fishing	nmod:poss
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sea	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 deep	punct
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fishing	compound
10	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	straight	straight	ADV	_	17 playground	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 playground	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 playground	nmod:poss
17	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 call	cc
19	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 calls	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sheep	det
22	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 calls	nsubj
23	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 call	advcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 lamb	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 lamb	det
26	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 calls	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wait	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wait	cc
29	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	conj
30	until	until	SCONJ	_	32 heard	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 heard	nsubj
32	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wait	advcl
33	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 bleat	compound
34	bleat	bleat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heard	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come back	past	Matkah				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	would	side		side's sea fishing	to things's playground	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from fishing=Initial_Location to playground=Destination
3	call	infinitive	side not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	call	present	a sheep			for a lamb	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for lamb=Recipient
5	wait	infinitive	side not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hear	past	sheep	Kotick bleat			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bleat=Stimulus
7	fish		side				nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=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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