The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 106
“Wake up!” barked Kotick, for the gulls were making a great noise.
Who acts: you, gulls · What happens: wake up, bark, make · To what, where: Kotick, great noise
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, gulls), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wake | punct |
| 2 | Wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Wake | compound:prt |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wake | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wake | punct |
| 6 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wake | conj |
| 7 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 barked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 making | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 making | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gulls | det |
| 11 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 making | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 making | aux |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Wake | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 noise | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 noise | amod |
| 16 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 making | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | bark | past | you not said here | Kotick | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kotick=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past · progressive | the gulls | a great noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
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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