The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 80
Then he dived and made sure of the mouth of the tunnel, and raced through to the southward.
Who acts: sea · What happens: dive, make, race · To what, where: southward
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 (sea), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dived | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dived | nsubj |
| 3 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 made | cc |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dived | conj |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 made | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mouth | det |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sure | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tunnel | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tunnel | det |
| 12 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mouth | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 raced | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 raced | cc |
| 15 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dived | conj |
| 16 | through | through | ADV | _ | 15 raced | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 southward | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 southward | det |
| 19 | southward | southward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raced | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | past | sea | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | make | past | sea not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | race | past | sea not said here | the southward | through property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to southward=Destination |
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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