The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 103

He flung himself at the biggest sea catch he could find, caught him by the throat, choked him and bumped him and banged him till he grunted for mercy, and then threw him aside and attacked the next.

Who acts: Limmershin · What happens: fling, find, catch, choke, bump, bang · To what, where: Limmershin, biggest sea catch, next

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Limmershin), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flung	nsubj
2	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 flung	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 catch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 catch	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 catch	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 catch	compound
8	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flung	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 catch	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 caught	punct
13	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 catch	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 caught	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 throat	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 throat	det
17	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caught	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 choked	punct
19	choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flung	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 choked	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bumped	cc
22	bumped	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 choked	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bumped	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 banged	cc
25	banged	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flung	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 banged	obj
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 grunted	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 grunted	nsubj
29	grunted	grunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 banged	advcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 mercy	case
31	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grunted	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 threw	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 threw	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 threw	advmod
35	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flung	parataxis
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 threw	obj
37	aside	aside	ADV	_	35 threw	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 attacked	cc
39	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 threw	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 next	det
41	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 attacked	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past	Limmershin	Limmershin		the biggest sea catch			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at catch=Destination
2	find	could	Limmershin	the biggest sea catch not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catch=Topic
3	catch	participle	Limmershin not said here	Limmershin				by the throat	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	choke	past			Limmershin				vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination
5	bump	past		Limmershin					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
6	bang	past	Limmershin not said here	Limmershin					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
7	grunt	past	Limmershin					for mercy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mercy=Recipient
8	throw	past		Limmershin			then	aside property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	attack	past		the next					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent next=Patient

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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