The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 110
What’s that?” said Sea Vitch, and he struck the next walrus a blow with his tusks and waked him up, and the next struck the next, and so on till they were all awake and staring in every direction but the right one.
Who acts: Vitch, next, tusks · What happens: say, strike, wake up, be, stare · To what, where: next walrus, Vitch, next · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Vitch, next, tusks), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 said | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Vitch | compound |
| 8 | Vitch | Vitch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 struck | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 struck | nsubj |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 walrus | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 walrus | amod |
| 15 | walrus | walrus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 blow | det |
| 17 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 tusks | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tusks | nmod:poss |
| 20 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 blow | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 waked | cc |
| 22 | waked | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 struck | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 waked | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 waked | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 struck | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 struck | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 next | det |
| 28 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 struck | nsubj |
| 29 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 next | det |
| 31 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 struck | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 awake | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 awake | cc |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 awake | advmod |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 awake | case |
| 36 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 40 awake | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 awake | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 awake | cop |
| 39 | all | all | ADV | _ | 40 awake | advmod |
| 40 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 struck | advcl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 staring | cc |
| 42 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 awake | conj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 direction | case |
| 44 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 direction | det |
| 45 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 staring | obl |
| 46 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 one | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 one | det |
| 48 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 one | amod |
| 49 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 direction | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | strike in a quote | past | Vitch | the next walrus | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent walrus=Patient blow=Result | ||||
| 3 | wake up in a quote | past | Vitch not said here | Vitch | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | strike in a quote | past | the next | the next | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent next=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | tusks = tusk | all, awake property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stare in a quote | gerund | tusks = tusk not said here | in every direction but the right one | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=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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