The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 124
All the population was yelling and screaming “Clam-eater!
Who acts: population · What happens: yell, scream · To what, where: Clam eater
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 (population), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 population | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 population | det |
| 3 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yelling | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 yelling | aux |
| 5 | yelling | yell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 screaming | cc |
| 7 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 yelling | conj |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 eater | punct |
| 9 | Clam | clam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eater | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Clam | punct |
| 11 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 screaming | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 yelling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | past · progressive | all population | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | gerund | all population not said here | Clam eater | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eater=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/124/