The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 57

But, as you know, he has an extra joint in his foreflipper, and by waving it up and down and about he makes what answers to a sort of clumsy telegraphic code.

Who acts: you, Kotick · What happens: know, have, wave up, make, sort · To what, where: extra joint, foreflipper, joint, answers, clumsy telegraphic code

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 (you, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 has	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 But	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 know	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 has	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 joint	det
10	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 joint	amod
11	joint	joint	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 foreflipper	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 foreflipper	nmod:poss
14	foreflipper	foreflipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 joint	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 waving	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 waving	cc
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 waving	mark
18	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 has	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 waving	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 waving	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 down	cc
22	down	down	ADV	_	20 up	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 makes	cc
24	about	about	SCONJ	_	26 makes	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 makes	nsubj
26	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 waving	conj
27	what	what	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 answers	det
28	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 makes	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 sort	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sort	det
31	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 makes	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 code	case
33	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 code	amod
34	telegraphic	telegraphic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 code	amod
35	code	code	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sort	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	present	Kotick	a extra joint	Kotick's foreflipper		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joint=Patient
3	wave up	gerund	Kotick not said here	joint			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	make	present	Kotick	what answers		to a sort of clumsy telegraphic code	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product
5	sort			clumsy telegraphic code			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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