The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 126
He jumped up in the air as high as he could go, and just under him whizzed by the head of Nagaina, Nag’s wicked wife.
Who acts: Tikki · What happens: jump up, go, whiz · To what, where: air
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 (Tikki), 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 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 jumped | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 high | advmod |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 jumped | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 high | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 whizzed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 whizzed | cc |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 whizzed | advmod |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 whizzed | mark |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 whizzed | nsubj |
| 18 | whizzed | whiz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 head | det |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whizzed | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Nagaina | case |
| 23 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 head | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wife | punct |
| 25 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Nag | case |
| 27 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 wife | amod |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Nagaina | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | Tikki | the air | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go | could | Tikki | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | whiz | past | Tikki | by the head of Nagaina | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by head=Trajectory |
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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