The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 125
Stareek [old man]!” while Sea Vitch rolled from side to side grunting and coughing.
Who acts: Stareek · What happens: roll · To what, where: side
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 (Stareek), 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 | Stareek | Stareek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 rolled | nsubj |
| 2 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stareek | appos |
| 5 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stareek | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stareek | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 rolled | mark |
| 9 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Vitch | compound |
| 10 | Vitch | Vitch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 rolled | nsubj |
| 11 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rolled | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 grunting | case |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grunting | compound |
| 16 | grunting | grunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rolled | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 coughing | cc |
| 18 | coughing | coughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grunting | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll in a quote | past | Stareek | side | to side grunting and coughing | vn slide-11.2-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from side=Initial_Location to grunting=Destination |
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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