The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 31
That night Kotick danced the Fire-dance with the yearling seals.
Who acts: night · What happens: dance · To what, where: Fire dance
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 (night), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 danced | nsubj |
| 3 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 night | appos |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dance | det |
| 6 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dance | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fire | punct |
| 8 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 danced | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 seals | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 seals | det |
| 11 | yearling | yearling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seals | compound |
| 12 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 danced | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | that night | the Fire dance | with the yearling seals | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=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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