The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 9

When Kotick felt his skin tingle all over, Matkah told him he was learning the “feel of the water,” and that tingly, prickly feelings meant bad weather coming, and he must swim hard and get away.

Who acts: Kotick, Matkah, that, bad weather, water · What happens: feel, tell, learn, mean, come, swim · To what, where: skin tingle, Kotick, feel, bad weather · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Matkah, that, bad weather), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 felt	advmod
2	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tingle	nmod:poss
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tingle	compound
6	tingle	tingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	obj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 over	advmod
8	over	over	ADV	_	3 felt	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct
10	Matkah	Matkah	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 learning	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 learning	aux
15	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 told	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 feel	det
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 feel	punct
18	feel	feel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 learning	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feel	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 learning	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 learning	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 meant	cc
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 meant	nsubj
26	tingly	tingly	ADV	_	30 meant	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tingly	punct
28	prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 feelings	amod
29	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 meant	nsubj
30	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
31	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 weather	amod
32	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 meant	obj
33	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 weather	acl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 swim	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 swim	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 swim	nsubj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 swim	aux
38	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 meant	parataxis
39	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 swim	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 get	cc
41	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 swim	conj
42	away	away	ADV	_	41 get	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Kotick	Kotick's skin tingle		over property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tingle=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Matkah		Kotick		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	learn	past · progressive	Matkah	the feel of the water			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feel=Topic
4	mean	past	that	bad weather		tingly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Topic
5	come	gerund	bad weather not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	swim	must	Matkah			hard property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	get away	infinitive	Matkah not said here			away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	tingle		Kotick				nom tingle «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
9	feel in a quote		the water				nom feel «cognition intransitive»: of=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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