The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 133
Kotick swam back to Novastoshnah, leaving the gulls to scream.
Who acts: Kotick · What happens: swim back, leave, scream · To what, where: Novastoshnah, gulls
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 swam | nsubj |
| 2 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 swam | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Novastoshnah | case |
| 5 | Novastoshnah | Novastoshnah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 swam | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaving | punct |
| 7 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 swam | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gulls | det |
| 9 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leaving | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 scream | mark |
| 11 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gulls | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim back | past | Kotick | Novastoshnah | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to novastoshnah=Destination | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | Kotick not said here | the gulls | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gull=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | to-infinitive | Kotick not said here | the gulls not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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