The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 130
He bit, indeed, but did not bite long enough, and he jumped clear of the whisking tail, leaving Nagaina torn and angry.
Who acts: Tikki · What happens: bite, not bite, jump, whisk, leave, tear · To what, where: Nagaina
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 bit | nsubj |
| 2 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 bit | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bite | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 bite | cc |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bite | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 bite | advmod |
| 9 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bit | conj |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 bite | advmod |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 jumped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jumped | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 jumped | nsubj |
| 15 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bit | conj |
| 16 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 jumped | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tail | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tail | det |
| 19 | whisking | whisk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 tail | amod |
| 20 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 clear | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leaving | punct |
| 22 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 jumped | parataxis |
| 23 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 leaving | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 angry | cc |
| 26 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 torn | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past | Tikki | indeed property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not bite | past · do-support | Tikki not said here | long property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | jump | past | Tikki | clear property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | whisk | gerund | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | leave | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | tear | participle · passive | Nagaina | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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