The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 120

Kotick made his dolphin-jump in the air and shouted as loud as he could: “Clam-eater!

Who acts: Kotick · What happens: make, shout, jump · To what, where: dolphin jump, air

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 (Kotick), 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	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 jump	nmod:poss
4	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jump	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 dolphin	punct
6	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jump	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shouted	cc
11	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 loud	advmod
13	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shouted	xcomp
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 could	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 could	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 loud	advcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 eater	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 eater	punct
19	Clam	clam	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eater	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Clam	punct
21	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	Kotick	Kotick's dolphin jump	the air	Clam eater obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Product
2	shout speech: express	past	Kotick not said here			loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	jump		Kotick		the air		nom jump «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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