The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 54

One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch.

Who acts: high summer flood, Tikki · What happens: wash, live, carry, kick, cluck · To what, where: Tikki, burrow

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 (high summer flood, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 washed	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flood	det
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flood	amod
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flood	compound
7	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 washed	nsubj
8	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 washed	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 burrow	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 burrow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 burrow	det
13	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 washed	obl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 lived	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lived	nsubj
16	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 burrow	acl:relcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 father	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lived	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mother	cc
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 father	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 carried	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 carried	cc
24	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 washed	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 carried	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kicking	punct
27	kicking	kick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 carried	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 clucking	cc
29	clucking	cluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 kicking	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ditch	punct
31	down	down	ADP	_	34 ditch	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 ditch	det
33	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ditch	compound
34	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kicking	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past	a high summer flood	Tikki	the burrow	day		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme out burrow=Source
2	live	past	Tikki				with Tikki's father and mother	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with father=Location
3	carry	past	a high summer flood not said here	Tikki				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	kick	gerund	a high summer flood not said here				down a roadside ditch	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	cluck	gerund	a high summer flood not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «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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