The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 100
The nest swayed to and fro, as they sat on the rim and cried.
Who acts: nest, Darzee · What happens: sway, sit, cry · To what, where: rim
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nest, Darzee), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nest | det |
| 2 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swayed | nsubj |
| 3 | swayed | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 fro | case |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fro | cc |
| 6 | fro | fro | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 swayed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 sat | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swayed | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 rim | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rim | det |
| 13 | rim | rim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sat | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sway | past | the nest | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | past | Darzee | the rim | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rim=Location | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Darzee not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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