The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 74

They throw stones and talk child’s talk.

Who acts: Waters, child · What happens: throw, talk · To what, where: stones, talk

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 (Waters, child), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 throw	nsubj
2	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 throw	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 talk	cc
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 throw	conj
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 child	case
8	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talk	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	throw	present	Waters = water	stones	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	talk	infinitive	Waters = water not said here	child's talk	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent talk=Patient
3	talk		child		nom talk «communication intransitive»: 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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